21. Social change of WW2 and up to 1960s (Woman's civil rights in USA)
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- Social change of WW2 and up to 1960s (Woman's civil rights in USA)
- Less prejudice against direct participation
- 100,000 women served in armed forces in Women's Army Corps, Navy and Women's Air Force
- Jobs included flying and testing planes
- Inevitable typing, sewing, cooking and nursing
- Propaganda urged women to take over men's jobs, although clear for duration of war, not permanently
- No parity in pay
- in 1944, average women's salary was $31.21 a week for manufacturing work as opposed to men who earned $54.65 a week
- More women than WW1 as taxi drivers, heavy industry workers, drivers and workers in lumber and steel mills.
- Six million women entered workforce making them over third of labour force as war absorbed 16 million men
- Relatively small numbers of adventurous women made considerable impact as new ventures, such as women training as pilots
- New jobs and responsibilities
- Demonstrated by 37,000 women being killed in accidents in ammunition factories
- Travelled more inside and outside USA
- Had been subject of propaganda campaigns which encouraged them to be adventurous and showed them in new roles
- Arguably, WW2 taken social change further than WW1 even if no great symbolic change like vote
- Reaction against change may have been greater than in period after 1918
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