What were the effects of World War II on American women and minority groups in the United States, and were they positive or negative?

After a
decade of Depression,brought a full employment economy. Factories ran night and day to produce
the planes, tanks, ships, weapons, and supplies needed for war machine. The war opened up
widespread economic opportunities for women and minorities.

Mexican
Americans, for example, prospered during the war. For the first time, they were offered the same
wages at whites. Their employment in shipyards, for example, increased over the course of only
three years from nothing to 17,000 by 1944. They also had opportunities to serve in the
military. Further, the Bracero program, though criticized as exploitative, brought an extra
168,000 farm workers, many of them Mexican into the U.S. during the war years.

World War II is famously the period of "Rosie the Riveter," the muscular
poster woman who could do a man's work. Women took on all sort of duties once the province of
men alone. They earned money (often a lot of it, with long shifts and overtime) and showed their
competency in...

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