present an image of a hellish nightmare where all decency and humanity

could be lost. For men who fought under these conditions, coming home

was a very difficult transition. Above all, these men wanted to return

to "normalcy", to come back to a life that they had been promised if

the war was won. This would turn out to be harder to obtain then first

expected, problems ranging from the availability of jobs in the work

force to child raising and post-traumatic stress would make this

return to "normalcy" very troublesome. This laborious task of

reintegrating into American culture would eventually lead to problems

in the gender relations in post war America.

One of the major problems that G.I.'s faced upon there return

to the States was the availability of jobs. During the war, the U.S.

government encouraged women and minorities to enter the industrial

work force due to labor shortages and increased demand for war goods.

By 1944 a total of 1,360,000 women with husbands in the service had

entered the work force. This, along with the a migration of

African-American workers from the south, filled the war time need f

which one of the seeds of the womens rights movements in later

various other ways also. Some children feared that their fathers would

reactions of the children they left behind. Most of the fathers that

reintegration was anything but smooth.

bills passed after the war, returning soldiers had a difficult time

fathers came to home to find undisciplined and unruly children, a far

children even resented at the strangers who had re-entered their

lives complete without there fathers and some even found that they had

were found to develop less traditional feminine sex roles. It could be

domestic life was undoubtedly not what was expected. With the problems

labor. This attitude toward women in the work force changed

finding jobs in post war America. This independence given to women

homemaker and a mother. Even with these efforts and those of the G.I.

effected the gender relation after the war. Most children found there

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Rosie Riviter, War II-, returning soldiers, returning fathers, gender relations, war america, post war america, war children, movements decades, availability jobs, domestic life, return normalcy, post-traumatic stress,
Approximate Word count = 816
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)