Women's Roles In The Twentieth Century

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“I’ve gone from building an aircraft for the war and living my dream, balancing being a mum and a job to spending my days cooking with my child hanging off my leg.” I know that I am not alone in this experience. In fact, the Second World War saw over six million women take over jobs that had previously been held by men. These jobs included welding, machining, building aircraft, repairing tanks, and working in armament factories. Acquiring these jobs was a huge step forward for women in the twentieth century, but these jobs have unjustly been returned to men. These women, myself included, have worked diligently and proactively to ensure that the war effort was successful. The men have now returned from their posts on the front line. These men have forced their way back and stolen our jobs away from us. We have been and still are a part of this country’s …show more content…

A survey carried out on women in 1944 by the US Women’s Bureau found that seventy-five percent of them planned to keep working in the postwar period. In addition to this figure, the survey also concluded that 84% of the women employed in manufacturing wanted to keep their factory jobs”. This survey was not a stand-alone with surveys carried out during the war on women who had a job “consistently found that the overwhelming majority of women war workers intended to continue working after the war and to stay in the same line of work”. However, the actions post-war from these women didn’t match these surveys with the return of the men from the frontline resulting in a large decrease in the population of women in jobs across the country. Statistics from “vphibbswomensroles” show that a year after World War II ended, “three and a half million women had voluntarily or involuntarily left the labour force”. These are women who have successfully helped to maintain and run this country of ours throughout a World War and have been rewarded with being sent back to

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