Adele's Discrimination During WWII

When WWII started the opportunity arose for many women to change their career path to go into defense work, where they had more direct competition with men. This competition and expansion of women obtaining higher level jobs lead to discrimination. In the article Adele faced discrimination when she searched for a job and when she started to work with men. This gave Adele the opportunity to prove herself that she had the same ability as anyone else. Unions started to reappear during the war. They gave workers to ability to protect themselves from large companies. Adele for an example pre-union go hurt on the job and could not work for a few days, her company did not pay her for the time she missed. With a union she could protect herself with