Ordinarily, many still fail to recognize the monumental role women played during World War II. With war comes altercations of society; furthermore, it brought vast opportunities for American women by allowing them to dive into the war effort by picking up industrial jobs that men abandoned. With this came feminist characters that were used to push women into the industrial field, but were these characters placed to uplift these women? With the men at war, the women of America fought through sexism in industrial jobs to help America on the Homefront. While looking at the lives of women in World War II, one can say that the war relinquished the traditional jobs and gender roles of women that had originally hindered America economically, although, …show more content…
Precisely, about a quarter of women worked outside of the household by 1940; however, only in “traditionally female” jobs including sewing, nursing, and typing. Not until World War II did women have the opportunity to seek jobs out of the realm of their typical profession. Remarkably, the war did lead to a “dramatic rise in the number of women working in the United States; from 10.8 million in March 1941, to more than 18 million in August 1944, reversing a downward trend attributed to the depression.” Although, of these women, twenty-nine percent already worked during 1944-1945 (and had been for at least ten years prior) and another nineteen percent had five years of experience. The job market in War World II was multifarious and women were doing their best to take advantage of it. “Nearly six million American women took up jobs that they had not traditionally held before: in factories, plants, and on farms. Work in wartime production allowed women to express patriotism and gain financial independence.” These industrial jobs were crucial in the wartime effort, so they tended to be better paying and were in large supply. “Women were hired to do “men’s jobs” during the war on a scale unparalleled before or since, but this was no way the result of a feminist