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The Changing Role and Status of Women since 1945 Coursework 1. Source A is an account of events towards the end of the Second World War, written by woman welder. It is reliable because it is from the time of the end of WW2 and it was written by a woman that experienced working in a factory and then being fired. We learn that in the factory the woman was working for the problem was not a lack of work, but a shortage of workers, '...he said one word "redundant". That was a new word in our vocabulary'. This shows us that women were not used to getting fired, which may be because the factories needed every work force available. We can also learn that men still thought women a bit as interferer and they expected them to give the returning soldiers their jobs back, 'There was no reason given. There...

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