In the Second World War, the traditional roles of stay at home moms mostly had to be suspended so the country could keep the war well supplied with medical supplies, food, uniforms, guns and everything else. Many women had non-traditional roles which usually would have been carried out by men. Women supported the war front from the home front doing war plant jobs and other jobs. They worked in factories, making ammunition, repairing planes/aircraft. Many wives had to run their husband's businesses. Farmer's wives worked the family farms with the help of farm hands.
This was a huge learning experience for managers of plants and factories--all men. Male managers often resented having to teach and supervise ~women~. However, women workers saw it as a challenge-- one they would win. Many women were smarter and more skilled than their male bosses, but women had to often try to "dumb down" to placate their male bosses' egos. However, women proved they could keep up with production time deadlines and that they had the ability and skill to produce products just as excellent as male workers. Many women learned the business side of supervising and managing from their factory jobs--- but these were skills women used every day as stay at home moms! Women in the workplace were not about to give up, despite negative male attitudes toward women. And, the country indeed needed women as workers. The US would not have been able to send all the able-bodied men they sent to war, if women had not been placed in worker roles, or if they had produced inferior products for war!
Women also cooperated with the rationing programs and recycling plans -- they ran these programs in their local communities, not just cooperated with this plan. They bought billions of dollars of War Bonds. Women were the back bone of the victory of the war. See my answers on the links below that shows what they did. This question does not indicated the period of time that affected the roles of women. Since it was put into the category of World War 2 I will tell you that the women in North America, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and other nations worked in the war manufacturing plants building war armament and ships, planes and boats. Women and men ineligible to fight in the war were the major reason the Allied Forces won the war. Teens and older girls helped with war bond fund drives along with the women and men running the drives.
Over 300,000 women served in the armed forces doing clerical jobs, nursing jobs or war type jobs such as manning radar stations. In addition they often did the following roles:
When the war was over many women realized they did not have to be wives/mothers/housekeepers anymore. Some went to college to get professional jobs and others started their own business. Those who could not get professional jobs went for the clerical positions or other types of work.
World War II was the impetus for the 1960s Equal Rights Movement for the women. Men's and Women's daily roles had been forever changed; women would not go back to the way it was.
Some historians who wrote about women's roles in WWII include:
Women fulfilled many roles during World War II. They became the bread winners for their families, they took full time jobs working in factories and in businesses. In the Soviet Union, women fought alongside men during the war.
As men left to fight the war, it was only left to women to take over their jobs. They did all of those hard metal works stuff making planes tanks and ammo supporting the Total war
The majority of the time in the past a womens role was basically to raise a family, when women persue jobs, the jobs usually require traits such caring and communication.Very frequent jobs are things like teaching, secretaries, factory workers, caring for children....
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they stayed at home and finished cooking with the post man
They were all leaders of their respective countries during WW2
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world war 2 gave a turn when womens rights were established
world war 1
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roles of countries did not change during the war, they were the same as before and afterwards.
June 1939 go to Woodlands Junior world war 2
yes, in some countries such as Russia...............
As men left to fight the war, it was only left to women to take over their jobs. They did all of those hard metal works stuff making planes tanks and ammo supporting the Total war
The majority of the time in the past a womens role was basically to raise a family, when women persue jobs, the jobs usually require traits such caring and communication.Very frequent jobs are things like teaching, secretaries, factory workers, caring for children....
Womens Volunteer Service Corps - Canada
Ovets Culp Hobby
THE ROLES OF WOMEN DURING WAR WORLD II CHANGED ALOT. WOMEN HAD TO DO WAR LIKE MATERIALS AND HAD TO TAKE OVER MEN LIKE JOBS THEY DID NOT CARE IF THEY WERE TOUGHT UNFIMMENIN THEY NEEDED THE MONEY. THEY WOULD EARN , SPEND AS MUCH AS MEN DID.