re: #47 Destro

I thought it fear of millions of former veterans coming back from the war well trained in combat. With the Bonus Marches still fresh in congressional minds, we also got the GI Bill so as to not make our returning vets angry enough to take to the streets and overthrow a govt (real fear in those days).

So, while sexism did play a role in the job switcheroo it was not purely sexism that caused.

It was a mixture of both, the cultural attitudes regarding women at the time as well as the influx of returning vets. What had been seen during the war as a necessary evil was once again rendered taboo.