dued by an army of young women workers, 80,000 strong" (Janeway 212).
             Occupational mobility was "perhaps the most important unanticipated consequence of the war" (Chafe 126). Women began entering all fields in greater numbers. They worked as engineers, chemists, in legal offices, brokerage houses, as reporters, doctors, dentists, lawyers, as well as occupying jobs in industry (Chafe 126). Wages and working conditions also improved dramatically in the war industries where, "for the first time in their lives, many women worked in a safe, clean, and pleasant environment" (Chafe 128). "In addition, the women who entered the war plants u
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