How Did World War II Affect the Lives and Status of Women?
… shared with family and friends. Not everyone wanted the status of women to change after the war. According to source D2, some women were eager to return to their ‘traditional’ domestic roles, and some women’s husbands were not keen on the idea of their wives working. Many women felt that the war was not reality, and so they opposed the change in the status of women. Of course, many men also did not want the status of women to change, possibly for the same reasons, but also because they felt women were not as capable as they were at doing certain jobs. Source D3 tells us that although men thought women were probably adequate at these jobs, they did not think that they could excel at them. I believe many men might have felt threatened by women who proved themselves as equal to them, and therefore they opposed their changing status. …
