History A-Level
Civil rights and gender in wartime work
What Civil rights and gender in wartime work means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Civil rights and gender in wartime work
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Wartime labour shortages transformed the role of women, while the Fair Employment Practices Commission banned racial discrimination in defence industries, improving the status of black Americans, though its mandate excluded sex discrimination.
Topics that use Civil rights and gender in wartime work
- Paper 2, Option 2H.1: The USA, c1920–55: boom, bust and recovery - 3 Impact of the New Deal and the Second World War on the USA to 1945 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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