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[–]Comatoast 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Also, whoops. I mentally tangeanted and started thinking we were talking about working class women pre-50s.

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When I researched my genealogy, most of the women in my family worked before the 1950s, too.

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There's a special kind of pride in it though. They're rolemodels in their own way by fighting to simply exist and make it along.

It was probably extremely common with WWII and really any wartime, yeah?