WW2 opened a new chapter in the lives of women. As husbands and fathers were out fighting in the battlefield, women marched into factories, offices and military bases to work in paying jobs usually done by men in peacetime.

... David Bramall 10P GCSE History Coursework. Assignment 1.1. WW2 opened a new chapter in the lives of women. As husbands and fathers were out fighting in the battlefield, women marched into factories, offices and military bases to work in paying jobs usually done by men in peacetime. During WW1 women got a chance to show they could do mens jobs just as good as the men although the real break didnt come until WW2. During WW2 women got to actually prove themselves and this is one of the key factors of why todays society is how it is today. Women worked in a lot of places in the war in which normally it would have been seen has a womans place is in that of the home, caring for their husbands and children, so it was a real chance for them to show what they were made of. Women gained a

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