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The egalitarian ideology that underlies feminism is in line with female workforce participation, and hence, feminism could rather naturally gain popularity in a global economic rat race. | The egalitarian ideology that underlies feminism is in line with female workforce participation, and hence, feminism could rather naturally gain popularity in a global economic rat race. | ||
Natural economic incentives aside, the widespread use of female workers in the munitions and arms industry during the two World Wars of the first half of the twentieth century is widely argued to be a key causative factor in the eventual mass inclusion of women in the labor force. It is argued that many women's role in this period, working in wartime industrial jobs while their husbands were off fighting the war, served to erode traditional gender roles that saw women as weak, passive, and incapable of strenuous labor and that many of the women who entered the labor force during the Second World War remained part of the workforce after the conflict. | |||
Examining the effects of the Second World War on women's employment in the US, Gloudin (1989) found that the effects of the Second World War on the rise in women's employment in the second half of the 20th century may have been overstated. She found that in the United States, only 20% of married women in the workforce in the 1950s had entered it during the Second World War. 50% of those who had been employed in various wartime industries were found to have dropped out of the workforce altogether after the end of the conflict. She concluded that the role of the Second World War was exaggerated, and it was not a primary direct cause of women's increasing labor force participation.<ref>https://www.nber.org/papers/w3203.pdf</ref> | |||
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