Women’s lives changed in many ways during World War II. As with most wars, many women found their roles and opportunities — and responsibilities — expanded. Husbands went to war or went to work in factories in other parts of the country, and the wives had to pick up their husbands’ responsibilities. With fewer men in the workforce, women filled more traditionally-male jobs. In the military, women were excluded from combat duty, so women were called on to fill some jobs that men had performed, to free men for combat duty.
Some of those jobs took women near or into combat zones, and sometimes combat came to civilian areas, so some women died.
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