How World War II Empowered Women

The notion was later rejected by the majority of the Americans by the year 1994. The equality revolution seemed to stall in the years between the second half of the 1990s and the early years of 2000s. The percentage of Americans preferring female homemaker/ male breadwinner family model was said to have risen from 34 percent to 40 percent between the years of 1994 to 2004 (Coontz 2013). For instance, in the book the price of motherhood the journalist Ann Crittenden gives an estimate that a woman who is college educated loses more than $1 million in foregone retirement benefits and lifetime earnings when they decide to opt out of a career for family obligations. In the second half of the 1990s, the participation of women in the labor force also leveled off.

In as much as this is from the feminist standpoint, it is the most reasonable response because it is a fact that our economic and political institutions are determined by our personal ideals. The greatest challenge for women during this time In my view, the greatest challenge that women faced in the post-WWII is their personal ideals and the societal classification. The rationale for this is based on the fact that, before the WWII, women had a place that was assumed to be where they belong. This ideally is a position that puts women in a state of conflict with their career or profession. Women equally held to their personal ideals that only spell their continued issues of inequality. It is crucial that Americans move away from ideals that foster gender disparity as compared to gender equality.