Did women keep working after WW2?

Question

During WW2 women worked whilst the men went away to fight. When the war was over and migrants started entering the country, did women keep working or return to the tradtitional roles once again?

Answer 1

Many women were fired so that when the men came home from the war they had a job to support their families.

Answer 2

Some but not that many. It is a myth that working women during WWII changed the society so that women starting workinging in large numbers. The facts are in the 1950's it was a leave it to beaver world most mothers stayed at home with the children and managed the home.

What happened wasn't WWII it was taxes. In the 1950's the average family had one bread winner and that person's income from January and February would cover the families tax burden for the entire year. Now in most cases both parents work and it takes their combined income from January through May to pay their tax burden.

So it takes almost all of the 2nd working parents income just to pay the tax burden.

Answer 3

LOTS of women kept working---there were plenty of working mothers. But there were some social barriers to many jobs, usually just traditional ideas that the determined women circumvented. For example, in the 1940's and 1950's, men were given preference for high-school teaching jobs, though usually elementary-school teaching jobs were always open to women.
In general, it was a little unusual for Mothers to have full-time jobs in the 1950's. The "norm" was Mom at home, and a family of about 4 or 5 children.
Often, women worked to help support the family while the husband went to college, since many more men (and women) got interested in college---before WW2, it was only for a small % of the population. The veterans of WW2 could go to college because of the "G I bill of rights".

But the real entry of women into the workplace of business, stores, city jobs, etc., came with WW1--before WW1, clerks, typists, salespeople, all sorts of business jobs were all-male--when men entered the service, they had to be replaced with women, just like in WW2.

Answer 4

Alot of the women had to work after WW2 because their hubands were killed in the war. Most of the women returned to their traditional roles when the war was over. Some continued to work because their children were grown and the husband was too screwed up from the war to maintain a job. They worked because for one reason or another they had too. They didn't wok as women work today.