Ambivalent Dreams: Women and the Home after World War II
Author(s)
May, Elaine Taylor
Abstract
World War II set the stage for this ambivalence. A dizzying array of new possibilities opened up for women, and then quickly shut down when the war ended. Employment in “men’s jobs” ended, but women’s aspirations for work outside the home did not. Married women continued to work in the paid labor force, and did so in increasing numbers.
