f 1942, females held 55% of all jobs. Nineteen million women were all employed by 1945. Women worked in fields that prior to the war seemed only suitable for men. They held positions such as manufactures of heavy machinery, to welders in a shipyard.
             This new employment opening also, for the first time, gave women a salary of their own. Women received better pay, improved and new skills, and the self-esteem that comes with receiving income, freedom, and opportunity. Women were given a chance to make their own decisions, without the advice of their husbands, brothers, or fathers. The financial situation was entirely up to them. They made and managed their monthly budgets, and decided where and how to spend their money. " The war changed everybody's lives. You just bought everything. I was buying these fox furs and all of these things. I could just buy anything".(Craig,4)
             Also during the war, women were being admitted into Unions. They protected a women's wages and was the cause of it rising. Previously, a Union nev
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