What opportunities and challenges did women face during the time in ww1 and ww2?

Answer 1

Many women who had never worked outside of their homes took jobs like in the aircraft factories, shipyards, and other industrial sites that directly supported the war effort.

Employment outside the home made a big difference in their lives and giving them self confidence as well as economic independence.

They got paid much less doing the same job, had to figure what to do with their children while at work. Most working woman shouldered the burden of cooking, cleaning and other wise maintaining their household.

Answer 2

In spite of the benefits of working, women faced a number of problems both inside and outside the workplace. They often encountered hostile reactions from other workers, particularly in jobs previously filled only by men. They also earned much less pay than men doing the same jobs. The National War Labor Board declared in the fall of 1942 that women who performed "work of the same quality and quantity" as men should receive equal pay. Employers widely ignored this policy