WWII GI's were being released from the service, and went after jobs. At the time it was commonly thought that a woman's place was in the home and the man should be the breadwinner.
Women had been hired during WWII because there were not enough men to do the work, especially with so many men in the armed forces fighting overseas, and increased pressure to increase wartime production in factories. So thousands joined the workforce for the first time, often doing hard physical jobs in wartime factories, leading to the figure of "Rosie the Riveter".
BUT, when the soldiers returned after the war, the old conventions were again followed, with women being fired and returning GI's being hired in their place. After all, women may 'want' to work, but the men NEEDED to work to be the breadwinners in their post-WWII families.
Note I do not agree with those attitudes or actions, but that is what lead to many women becoming unemployed after the war. ... or so I have read and been told.
Paul H.
Many women lost their jobs after the world wars, but I believe it was about 80,000 women. They had to give up their jobs for the men and return to being house wives.
seamstresses
The women suffrage is when women could not do many things because the boys thought they were wimpy.
The arguments made against giving women the right to vote before the world war were far and wide. Many of the arguments included that a woman's place was in the home, and that women were not knowledgeable enough to vote, because it was a man's world.
Feminists would criticise the warm bath theory because of it is discriminating women. Nowadays, new rights, laws and legal acts have been introduced to stop discrimination of women however in the theory, women stereotypically don't work and stay at home. However nowadays, majority of households and families have males and females working. This is also encouraged by the many new opportunities for women in education and the work force.
It reflected the new freedoms many women were enjoying because the hemlines were higher than ever before and many women also were able to wear pants without too much speculation.
There are approximately 122 million women in the world encounting because women are giving birth every second
Working on assembly lines
The reason why so many women were working during the war was because all of the men were fighting in the war. Many women helped the war by becoming nurses, but still, some had to remain at home working and keep up their family's business.
With the high unemployment of the depression, many women who were working lost their jobs. Employment schemes were generally aimed at keeping men working, so many women remained unemployed.
180,000 between 1941 and 1945
Women were needed because so many men were in the military.
It depends on which time frame you are working from.
After the turn of the centery, more and more laws were being made. Because of the 19 adment women were starting to enlist in the armed forces. Eventually, many decades later, women started to finally come in the armed forces. Most in the army.
Women in Britain, Canada and America took over many jobs that men had done. Working in factories, building ships,tanks and aircraft, working on farms, driving ambulances and trucks, and many other jobs where men had joined the military.
They had to work in factories building equipment and artillery for the war. They also had to sell war bonds, help soldiers that had been injured in the war and many things that men could not do because they had to fight in the war.During WWI women were mostly involved on the home front working in munitions plants, ship building, etc.
With so many men away at war there was a labour shortage and women had to step up to the plate.
In the world today, 49% of the population is men and 51% is women. The reason for this difference is women live longer; therefore more elderly women then men. I believe women live longer because so many die off naturally because of childbirth.