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The number of women working outside the home declined between 1945 and 1960.
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Seeing as during the time, women were striving to get better conditions because the men thought of them as the people who would stay at home and clean, look after the children, etc. The men didn't call these working women during the war a special type of name due to the sexism. They were just referred to as "Working women" or "Working-class women"
They thought women should be housewives and stay at home to cook, clean and look after children. They also thought at the end of the war the women had taken their jobs away from them. By working, the women challenged the stereotype people had made for themselves.
They were expected to give up their jobs.