Women of world War 2

Women Of World War 2
When speaking of women's roles, the initial thought is the things done at home, their unpaid domestic labour. But women actually played a vital part in their country's success in world war two. The war started a new era for women's opportunities to contribute to the country. By 1945, over 2.2 million women were working in war industries, constructing ships, weaponry, and aircrafts, women also worked in factories, farms, munitions plants, drove trucks, and entered specialized areas of work that were formerly conserved for men. Thousands of women had enrolled as nurses and messengers helping on the front lines. Although they contributed, women were not impacted positively by World War Two. For instance, women equality, stereotypes, and employment upon women. By World War Two there were no real beneficial changes in the status for women.
Women opportunities and lifestyles were negatively impacted due to the inequalities that women faced in the working sphere. The wage gap the years following World War Two were obviously lower than the men's. It was in the 1980's when women only earned sixty-four cents to a male dollar. Although laws came into effect like the Equal Pays Act in 1963, there were still unfairness with wages. It did very little in changing women's status as women were still not seen equally to men. Women were maintained as a cheap labour force because society thought that the insignificance of women's work would be threatened if women and men share the same jobs. To ensure the continuation of inexpensive women labour, they were confined to certain jobs which became known as " female occupations". This gender segregation further claimed that women's work was less important, hence appropriate for l...

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...loyment, economic battles, and stereotypical ways of life within the social order. Subsequent to the war, women had undergone through unfair compensation, loss of postwar employment, and the demands of returning to the old unchanged ways by government propaganda. As a result, these statements confirm that women are capable of great things, but their place in society were not positively affected by the end of the second war. By the end of the war there were 460,000 women in the military and 6.5 million in civilian work. Unfortunately it wasn't until the 1960s that any real, tangible change was seen for women. Without the contribution of women on the home front, there may have been no chance at winning the war. In the end, it seemed that the country disregarded that there once was a period when women were needed and were the main foundation for the country's triumph.