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During WWII, women were encouraged to join the workforce in the US as men left jobs to join the armed forces. However, it is argued that traditional gender ideology kept women from fully embracing ideals of women's rights & employment as they identified themselves not just as workers, but also as wives, mothers, & girlfriends of absent men. The greatest social & economic freedoms women experienced during WWII were viewed as emergency measures only, not as a shift in societal mores. The dislocations of the war resulted in the desire for a return to domesticity & "normality" in the postwar period, reaffirming women's traditional roles as homemakers & mothers. J. Ferrari

World War II is often thought of as a revolutionary time for change in the lifestyles of women. Men were duty bound by their country to join the War, and this left a gap in the workforce for the war productions industry. Into this chasm fell women, who were allowed to carry the mantle of male work outside of the house. This marks a significant change in American history, for the first time women had an acceptable and encouraged reason to function outside of the domestic sphere. Women were recruited specifically in the defense industry and were responsible for creating and maintaining essential military goods.