Limitations

What were women not involved in?

Wartime decision-making on the home front or about the aims and methods of war

What New Deal practice continued?

Government agencies being dominated by men in top managerial positions

What were women unable to secure?

The type of support for working women in the form of childcare and cheap restaurants or canteens that British women achieved during the war

What were women still expected to combine?

Domestic responsibilities with the most tiring and demanding work

What did women have to accept?

Unequal pay

What failed with AA women?

Despite having an organisation called the National Council of Negro Women, there was little consultation with AA women and little opportunity for them to join the armed forces or take on managerial roles

What happened due to the attack on Pearl Harbour in Dec 1941?

Harsh treatment of Japanese community, life for Japanese American women became hard and there was confinement and discrimination

What did women remain having?

Little real influence in the political parties

Why did women remain divided?

Even in wartime, conservative women’s groups did not support greater help for working mothers or equality of opportunity, believing that the war should not erode traditional family values