America's entry into World War II posed opportunities for American women domestically, yet ironically heightened fears about the exact role that women should adopt during wartime. A main issue that dominated women's lives during this period was how to combine privacy of home, with the new demands of the war. Women made significant gains in the military, as well as having a strong influence politically. Significantly also, American women encountered different experiences of life during World War II since factors such as ethnicity and class largely shaped how women responded to, the Second World War. Owing to the critical demand for labor, employers during the war helped to break down traditional gender roles by recruiting women to male jobs. Government, industry and the media all encouraged women to serve their patriotic duty by taking a job. The motive behind this doubt rested in the fact that the government feared the long-term consequences of women in the workplace. This!
             could be disruptive if women did not want to return to their domestic sphere after men returned from war. This fear was based soely upon the fact that women would become attached to their new found independence.
             The war helped women's work to become a more accepted part of middle-class life. If a woman took a job that was competitive in relation to her husbands, she took away the image that the man is the provider of the family. If she took a job of lower stature, she raised a discussion of embarrassment to her family. The war was responsible for women joining the labor market for the first time as well as getting rid of the difficulty in the employment of wives and mothers.
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