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https://gizmodo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/17/original.jpg?quality=75960540America’s entrance into World War II and the unprecedented domestic mobilisation effort that followed profoundly altered US society. Women not only entered the workforce en mass, they routinely worked in roles traditionally reserved for their male counterparts.