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and experienced the ability to be independent of husbands and fathers.
My mother was an engineer during WWII, one of the few. The day after the war ended, every woman got a pink slip, including the engineers, so the job would be waiting for a returning vet. Never mind none of them was qualified to do the work she was doing and wouldn't be until the GI Bill had done its job, she had to go. Never mind that she had held the job before the war, she had to go.
Suddenly, the only jobs open to women, no matter their education, were as nurses, teachers, waitresses, domestics, and secretaries. All were low paid.
She never got over it.
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