What were the roles of women in world war 2 ??

Question:In the USA, many women left their lower-paid pre-war occupations to go and work in defense jobs, where they earned much better money. As a result of the migration of women to defense jobs, 600 laundries went out of business in 1942, and in Detroit, a third of the restaurants closed because of the lack of help.

350,00 women joined the armed forces, mostly in the WACS (women's army corps) and the nursing corps.

The shortage of teachers impelled most school boards to drop their rules against married women, and some actually appealed to married ex-schoolteachers to return. for a few women on the home front, the war opened up opportunities that might otherwise have been unimaginable. People began dancing to all-girl bands. The owner of the Chicago cubs started an allAmerican Girls league.

There were campaigns to try and get married women to go into defense jobs, but most did not. About 90% of women who were housewives at the time of Pearl Harbour did not go out to work.

Whether they worked or not, women had to cope with rationing, which restricted the availablity of many kinds of food, anditems like gasoline, tires and stockings. Civilians got stamps every month that gave them the right to buy different products. "My mother and all the neighbours would get together around the dining-room table, and they'd be changing a sugar coupon for a bread or a meat coupon. It was like a giant monopoly game" said Sheril cunning, who was a child in Long Beach, California, during the war.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: In the USA, many women left their lower-paid pre-war occupations to go and work in defense jobs, where they earned much better money. As a result of the migration of women to defense jobs, 600 laundries went out of business in 1942, and in Detroit, a third of the restaurants closed because of the lack of help.

350,00 women joined the armed forces, mostly in the WACS (women's army corps) and the nursing corps.

The shortage of teachers impelled most school boards to drop their rules against married women, and some actually appealed to married ex-schoolteachers to return. for a few women on the home front, the war opened up opportunities that might otherwise have been unimaginable. People began dancing to all-girl bands. The owner of the Chicago cubs started an allAmerican Girls league.

There were campaigns to try and get married women to go into defense jobs, but most did not. About 90% of women who were housewives at the time of Pearl Harbour did not go out to work.

Whether they worked or not, women had to cope with rationing, which restricted the availablity of many kinds of food, anditems like gasoline, tires and stockings. Civilians got stamps every month that gave them the right to buy different products. "My mother and all the neighbours would get together around the dining-room table, and they'd be changing a sugar coupon for a bread or a meat coupon. It was like a giant monopoly game" said Sheril cunning, who was a child in Long Beach, California, during the war.

Women would be...
-Factory workers
-Nurses in the field(out of danger)
-Athletes
-Moms
-etc.

Depends on which country you are referring to. In the US, they were used as :
Workers to replace the men in the factories who went to war
Used to ferry planes from one end of the coast to another.
Used in promoting War Bond drives and blood drives.
Any other thing that the men usually did but could not because of the war

In the USSR, the women actually fought in major battles and flew in their air force.

IN Germany, they did not participate in combat but did perform as nurses and took care of the homes while the men were away..

IN France....well they surrendered so the women basically whored themselves to the victors or were active in the Resistance

In Britain I am not sure but it fell along the same lines as in the US. They did not fight in combat that I know of but still mirrored their US counterparts in terms of what they did.

You might want to Google the rest of the countries. Just try key words and you will probably get it right. Hope this helps you!