Women and The Expansion of Their Roles in Society Before the 1940’s your average woman would be at home taking care of the household chores and preparing diner for the family. The women make sure that when her husband and family returned that dinner was on the table and the house was clean. The men would work all day and make the household income. In the late 1930’s early 1940’s the role of women changed …showed first 75 words of 980 total…

…showed last 75 words of 980 total…of the war. But this time it was because that is where they wanted to be. Bibliography 1. Millstern, Beth and Bodin, Jeanne. We, The American Women. Chicago: Jerome S. Ozer, 1977. 2. Gluck, Sherna B. Rosie the Riveter Revisited. Boston: Twayne Publisher, 1987. 3. Zeinert, Karen. Those Incredible Women of WW II. Brookfield, Connecticut: The Millbrook Press, 1994. 4. Colman, Penny. Rosie the Riveter. New York: Crown Publishers Inc, 1995. 5. Women in World War II. http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvets5.html