Did World War 2 liberate women?

Answer 1

It did in some ways. Women typically were stay at home moms, bottle washers, typists, or schoolteachers. WW2 meant jobs that were normally done by the men, especially heavy construction jobs like welders and pipefitters HAD to be done by women, as the men were off doing the fighting. The popular press created posters and patriotic songs around the women who were often dubbed Rosie the Riveter, which is a good term to use on a Google search on the subject.

Problem was that when the men came back, the women were reluctant to give the jobs back. They had grown used to earning their own spending money, and a lot of them found that they were pretty good at whatever they were doing. The employers loved it because the women were not typically unionized, and they were working for less money than the experienced men they replaced.

For good or bad, things had changed and they would never go back.