1. Women became leading components of war industry manufacturing, replacing the men that went to war.
2. Because of the sex segregated environments cultivated by the war, establishments were created that catered to those with same sex desires. Rapidly spreading from large cities like New York and Chicago to smaller cities across the country, the seed had been planted for representation of the LGBTQ community and by the 1950’s groups had begun to form for homosexual civil rights.
3. The government let mexican workers known as braceros into the U.S. for short term work in industrial fields drastically changing the work force and unforeseen changes in immigration laws for the future.
4. The entertainment industry became a leading source of employment for soldiers on leave while creating unprecedented revenue in most cities.
5. The new rise of mass suburban housing projects lead to overlooked and yet significant negative changes to the environment.
For me, points 1-3 seem to be the most important because they seems to be the seeds for social, sexual, and gender equality. These seemingly small advances for the minorities of the country have grown immensely since the war and have redefined equality in this country.
Women during WWII