Well, I think this period in time made an open door for feminism. Think of Rosie the Riveter, an iconic symbol for this time in history. She represented the American women who worked in factories during World War II. These women replaced the male workers who were in the military.
That doesn't bother me. Women took care of the things that needed to be cared for. However, when the men returned, women didn't want to give them their role back. They liked this new form of "freedom", which was a crock. Their mindset had changed. Raising children and running all the things they had before, was no longer important. They needed to be doing what the men were doing in order to be influential, they thought. Which sickens me (in a painful, not disgusted, way). They bought into a lie, and it has had devastating results on our culture. What more influential job could a woman have, other than raising up the next generation? They (mothers and fathers) directly control what kind of culture rolls in behind their era.
Women decided working in factories and having a “job” (never mind the fact that being a wife and mother is a 24/7 job that requires more work, time, and effort) was more important than the next generation. And we see its effects on society today.
The entire mindset changed after the Second World War.
As a side note, Rosie the Riveter is commonly used as a symbol of feminism and women's economic power now.
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