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America's entry into World War II posed opportunities for American women domestically, yet ironically heightened fears about the exact role that women should adopt during wartime. A main issue that dominated women's lives during this period was how to combine privacy of home, with the new demands of the war. Women made significant gains in the military, as well as having a strong influence politically. Significantly also, American women encountered different experiences of life during …

…a woman took a job that was competitive in relation to her husbands, she took away the image that the man is the provider of the family. If she took a job of lower stature, she raised a discussion of embarrassment to her family. The war was responsible for women joining the labor market for the first time as well as getting rid of the difficulty in the employment of wives and mothers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**