The Impact of the Second World War on the Position of Women Women’s role in society during the 1920’s was a polarised one, were women would stay at home and look after the children and the men earn the money. However, after World War I, society had changed for the better and this lead to a better life for women. Young women started to rebel against what the previous generation thought they should act like and did as they pleased. They wore the latest fashions, short skirts, short hair and make up, and would smoke in public. They came to be known as ‘flappers’. In the 1920’s, women won the vote which shows how much more of an impact on society they know made. At the start of World War II, millions of men joined the armed forces and women were needed to fill in their roles. In this essay, I will discuss whether this period of time had an impact upon the position of women or if it was a temporary one. To help me do this, I will talk about these in the headings of: women before the war, women during the war and women post war. The position of women under the New Deal wasn’t a good one for them. FDR had set up many alphabet agencies to tackle the problems of unemployment and to pump prime society and hopefully kick start the economy. However, many of these alphabet agencies were unfair. The CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps), which employed over 2.75 million, only employed 8000 women. Women were paid less than men for doing exactly the same jobs in the CCC. People believed, that by giving money to a man they could send it to their family and this would stop poverty. Some companies fired all their female employees. Also, some states di... ... middle of paper ... ...is wouldn’t have arisen as they needed women to work in munitions factories. Government spent a lot of time now stopping women having jobs. They tried to fill in this time for a housewife with soaps such as, ‘I Love Lucy’. Also many programs blamed women with careers for failed marriages and all the problems of society (to discourage them further). In conclusion, I think al the propaganda was short term and they used the women. Women did prove that they were as good as men and could do the same jobs as efficiently. We can clearly see that it was a temporary change to the position of women in society. In the long term, the war had given women a taste of social and economic freedom, which lays the foundation for women’s liberation. Women did prove that they were as good as men and could do the same jobs as efficiently.