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Then the men came home from war and many of the women who kept the country going were encouraged to get the heck out of the workforce and go back to keeping the

Then the men came home from war and many of the women who kept the country going were encouraged to get the heck out of the workforce and go back to keeping the house. Acceptance for married women to have a career was a struggle that lasted past the late 70's and honestly still affects women today. Acceptance of a woman being single either on purpose or being unable to find a husband is pretty dang recent and still not universal in the US. You really think it was the women being young and recently out of school that caused their bosses and coworkers not to respect them?

belorn 5y ago
The surviving men, now older and many with life lasting wound, did come back and with the G.I. Bill got sent to higher education. After that many got work through war contacts. Young men did not exist in the work force. Conscription mean it wasn't a choice between going to work or go to military. Every male when they finished school went to military, and during two world wars most of them died as a result. Were 18-20 year old fresh out of school treated different than a 30 year old that been through conscription and war. I can't say because I didn't lived through that period. What I can say is that people do treat 20 years old fresh out of school with a different level of respect than someone who been in the industry for 10 years. People also treat others different if they been working for 10 years and expecting to continue for an other 10 years, or if they are fresh recruits and only expect them to stay at the job for a handful of years. All of that is however beyond the point of what I wrote above. I said that women were expect to work outside the home at a very specific period on their lives. The only one given exception to this was the aristocrats or millionares who could shield both their sons and daughters.
- msrenee 5y ago
  I'm going to need to look up some numbers, but the US, which is where we're talking about, didn't join WWII until fairly late in the war. I know you don't literally mean that there were no young men in the workforce, but they weren't leaving at 18 and coming back at 30 years old. The war didn't last that long, lol.

belorn 5y ago

The surviving men, now older and many with life lasting wound, did come back and with the G.I. Bill got sent to higher education. After that many got work through war contacts. Young men did not exist in the work force. Conscription mean it wasn't a choice between going to work or go to military. Every male when they finished school went to military, and during two world wars most of them died as a result. Were 18-20 year old fresh out of school treated different than a 30 year old that been through conscription and war. I can't say because I didn't lived through that period. What I can say is that people do treat 20 years old fresh out of school with a different level of respect than someone who been in the industry for 10 years. People also treat others different if they been working for 10 years and expecting to continue for an other 10 years, or if they are fresh recruits and only expect them to stay at the job for a handful of years. All of that is however beyond the point of what I wrote above. I said that women were expect to work outside the home at a very specific period on their lives. The only one given exception to this was the aristocrats or millionares who could shield both their sons and daughters.

msrenee 5y ago
I'm going to need to look up some numbers, but the US, which is where we're talking about, didn't join WWII until fairly late in the war. I know you don't literally mean that there were no young men in the workforce, but they weren't leaving at 18 and coming back at 30 years old. The war didn't last that long, lol.