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1. Why were American women pressured to leave their jobs after the war?

Once the war was over, war production ended, and the women who specialized in that type of work were no longer needed.
Their work was seen as an unusual wartime necessity, and now that the war was over, they had to go back to "normal" and stay at home.
O Women did not need to work, as they were usually supported by their husbands, and so they had no reason to keep jobs away from men.
The men needed those manufacturing jobs because they had no other options available to them.

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Answer:

Their work was seen as an unusual wartime necessity, and now that the war was over, they had to go back to "normal" and stay at home.

Step-by-step explanation:

The pressure on women to leave the factory was strong. Some business owners simply laid women workers off, saying that since the war was over they were not needed—but then they gave those women’s jobs to men. Some businesses revived their old policies of not hiring married women.

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