Changes came in the 19th and 20th centuries some example are for women the right to equal pay is now written in law. Women traditionally ran the household, had children, were nurses, mothers, wives, neighbors, friends, and teachers. During periods of war, women were drafted into the labor market to do the work that had been traditionally restricted to men only. Following the wars, they lost their jobs in their version of the corporate world and had to return to domestic and service