Roles During Ww2

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Throughout history and even today women have been denied importance in the roles to which they’ve played, while being pushed aside or dismissed from the roles to which they’ve played throughout society. “It was clear that new gender roles for women created during the war existed alongside traditional beliefs concerning their primary domestic duties” (Lindsey, 2011, pg. 125). Just like that of World War II when the women were expected to leave the home front, and fill those jobs in the factories, shipyards, and mills that once was only maned by the breadwinners alone “men”. Although, many women would agree they loved the fact that they now had new found freedom away from home, they also knew it was going to last for just a short time; and soon

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