I'm not really sure there's a lot of evidence that either you or your professor are correct. I don't believe there's much evidence that there was a permanent j

I'm not really sure there's a lot of evidence that either you or your professor are correct. I don't believe there's much evidence that there was a permanent jump in the female labour force due to WWII. Equally, I'm not sure that there is much correlation between workforce increase and the ownership of washing machines (and yes, I know that correlation != causation but not much correlation != causation either). The hypothesis I've seen that seems to follow the evidence is for the number of women attending higher education but, my guess, is that there were a lot of competing factors rather than one outlier. And no, it doesn't make you a bigot for proposing that any more than it makes your prof a warmonger for proposing that WWII was a good thing for women.