Gender Equality In Australia After Ww2

World War 2 was fought from 1939 to 1945 in Europe and during much of the 1930s and 1940s in Asia. It was not till the 3rd of September 1939 when Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies broadcast on every national and commercial radio station in Australia the beginning of Australia 's involvement in the War. Many men and women contributed to the war effort, the men going to fight in other countries, while the women like in the first world war stayed in Australia knitting socks and baking cookies to post to their loved ones fighting. But unlike the first war, women 's involvement grew during the war grew with more jobs being available, allowing them to break through the social stereotype and show the men that women are able to achieve anything …show more content…
It was on August 1945 when the war had ended, soldiers were returning home and everyone was celebrating their return. Due to the return of the men, the women who had taken over these men’s jobs were being forced to leave their current job in order for the men to take them back. Controllers of the women’s services had been told as early as 1944 ‘that the war was de-escalating’ and that women should be given discharge as their service were not essential anymore (Adam-Smith,1984). Women were being discharged at a high rate of 150 a day, this later on rose to 190 a day by mid 1945. To contrary belief, many of these women were happy to return to their domestic lifestyle as by leaving this pre-war lifestyle to help in the war effort they had to postpone things such as marriage and having kids. However, even after Australian women returned pre-war lifestyle their contribution to WWII made to the later feminist