TY - BOOK ID - 142819356 TI - Women workers in the Second World War : production and patriarchy in conflict PY - 2013 SN - 1136247262 0203103955 129927918X 1136247270 PB - London ; New York : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Women employees KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - History. KW - Social aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:142819356 AB - The Second World War is often seen as a period of emancipation, because of the influx of women into paid work, and because the state took steps to relieve women of domestic work. This study challenges such a picture. The state approached the removal of women from the domestic sphere with extreme caution, in spite of the desperate need for women's labour in war work. Women's own preferences were frequently neglected or distorted in the search for a compromise between production and patriarchy. However, the enduring practices of paying women less and treating them as an inferior catego ER -