165k views
2 votes
When the war ends, soldiers expect their jobs back. What happens to the women who refuse to quit working after the soldiers return?

User Jick Lee
by
4.8k points

1 Answer

4 votes

In order to free up jobs for men, women were forced out of work and into their kitchens, by the same managers who had previously begged them to help out.

A survey conducted by the end of the war suggested that between 61 and 85 percent of women wanted to remain in their jobs after the war ended. By 1948 women in the U.S. workforce had dropped to 32.7 percent.

User Kerene
by
4.9k points