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When an anti-discrimination amendment was proposed for the Constitution on the basis of sex, the debate of women's equality began to stir; the New York Times published a Q&A with two committeewomen asking their views on the debate, as to whether…

Margaret Barnard Pickel wrote this bold expose regarding college women refusing to enter the military; an ongoing concern regarding college women was that they felt they were too intellectual to enter the military without holding a rank.

Ruth Sulzberger wrote an article regarding women's colleges during the war; at a time when women's colleges were seen as obsolete, the opportunities rising out of wartime have given women, and college students, new aims.

In response to the media blast of women as wartime heroes in 1942, Newsweek released an article nearly a year later deeming the enthusiasm "premature," claiming that the involvement of women in the war has died down and should be higher.

Even in 1943, the country was already thinking about what would come next for women once wartime became peacetime. Monthly Labor Review released an article discussing the possibilities for women post-war, including how they could implement their new…

Toward the end of the war, recruitment levels for women were still lower than the government had expected. An ongoing debate ensued as to whether or not women should have been drafted: if men were forced into the war effort, some thought women…

Modine Manufacturing Co. released an advertisement in 1943 that posed the issue of women and their difference in the workplace; claiming their difference in their "strength, physiological reactions, and mental attitudes," the ad suggests that their…

Even before the end of WWII, American Magazine released an edition with a cover that explicitly acknowledged the most prominent post-war concern: women's jobs.

In early 1943, the discussions regarding women entering the workplace and the military circulated a positive response in women, seeing the opportunities created by the war as a step in the right direction for the country's view toward women's…

In June of 1943, Independent Woman Magazine released an informative call-to-action article about women's involvement in "winning the war." The information includes solving the manpower problem, concerns with drafting and equal wages, community…