How far did the position of women change from the end of World War II to the end of the 1960's?

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How far did the position of women change from the end of World War II to the end of the 1960’s?

Since time immemorial, women have been considered as the ‘weaker’, domesticated sex, most memorably so in Victorian Times. Women of the Victorian era were idealized as the helpmate of man, the keeper of the home, and the “weaker sex.” Heroines in popular fiction were expected to be frail and virtuous. For while the Victorian era was a time of national pride and belief in British superiority, it was also an age best-remembered for its emphasis on a strict code of morality, unequally applied to men and women. The term Victorian has come to refer to any person or group with a narrow, uncompromising sense of right and wrong. Women were not only discriminated against by the moral code, but they were also discriminated against by the legal code of the day. Until the 1880s married women were unable to hold property in their own name; and the wages of rural workers would go directly to the husband, even if he failed to provide anything for his family.

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        Although this may have been possible in Victorian England, it is rather hard to believe that almost the same image applied to women in America in the 1930s. America was seen as being the home of equality, the wealthy country that offered limitations on no one.  Yet in the 1930s, women were still the more domesticated gender, and of the few who worked, most were employed in childcare, as nurses, or other such non-professional occupations. They had no vote and were not welcome in the workplace. Even in 1940, only 35% of married women worked.

        World War II brought ...

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