Although during this time most of the country’s women “working roles” had to include marriage and becoming a mother, paid work was possible for all but a few groups of women (1). In addition to the challenges white females faced, minority groups at the time were dealing with a unique range of impediments to their socioeconomic mobility (3). Consistent with the disparities wrought in the New Deal and G.I. Bill policies, black American and “foreign-born” women didn’t have the choice to work, but instead they had to in order to survive (2). The dominance of America’s white power structure framed WWII as “a white war” in which minorities had no important place (2).
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