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What benefits and disadvantages did women experience after the War?

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Benefits. Woman where given more freedom. Independence. Disadvantages. Woman had to face inequality. Woman in the workplace where usually demoted after the war.
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women proved that they could do "men's" work, and do it well. With men away to serve in the military and demands for war materials increasing, manufacturing jobs opened up to women and upped their earning power. Yet women's employment was only encouraged as long as the war was on. Once the war was over, federal and civilian policies replaced women workers with men.

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