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OpenStudy (anonymous):

How was life similar and/or different for American women before, during, and after the war? Did the war change the role of women in American society?

OpenStudy (exoticinspirit):

which war

OpenStudy (exoticinspirit):

ww2?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

yes ww2

OpenStudy (exoticinspirit):

During world war two, many women went to work ( Rosie the Riveter) and made good wages.Today there isn't a job a man does that there isn't a woman doing it in some form Married woman worked

OpenStudy (exoticinspirit):

Extended political campaigns by women and their supporters have generally been necessary to gain legislation or constitutional amendments for women's suffrage. In many countries, limited suffrage for women was granted before universal suffrage for men; for instance, literate women were granted suffrage before all men received it. The United Nations encouraged women's suffrage in the years following World War II, and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979) identifies it as a basic right with 188 countries currently being parties to this Convention.

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