Women+support+industry

With large Numbers of the men in the military. employers hired women for jobs that had been for men.about 8 million switched to higher paying industrial jobs. women worked in factories,shipyards and railroad yards served as police officers, mail carriers, and train engineers. when the war ended most women reeturned to their previous jobs or didn't work. but they showed that women are capable of holding jobs that many believed only men could do.