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Role of Women
With this large horizon of opportunity and confidence, and with the long skill base that many women could now give to paid and voluntary employment, women's place in World War II were even more than in the First World War. By 1945, more than 2.2 million women were working in the war industries, building ships, aircraft, vehicles, and weaponry. Women also worked in factories, munitions plants and farms, and also drove trucks, provided logistic support for soldiers and began professional areas of work that were previously the preserve of men. In the Allied countries thousands of women joined as nurses serving on the front lines. Thousands of others joined defensive militias at home and there was an increase in the number of women serving in the military itself. Several hundred thousand women were in combat roles, especially in anti-aircraft units. The U.S. decided not to use women in combat because the public would discourage it. This will to use the skills and the time of women was increased by the nature of the war itself. While World War I was primarily fought in France and was a war without clear aggressor or villain, World War II involved global dispute on an unprecedented scale against certain people In these situations the absolute urgency of moving the entire population made the increment of the role of women inevitable.
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