Perhaps influenced by Post WWII government propaganda painted an idealistic picture of a white, male workforce (Oluo).
The efforts of the US government may have helped cement public opinion overall against women working after the war; studies showed that when asked what to do with women workers postwar, 48 percent of respondents said “fire them” and an additional 36 percent said “fire them, unless they have dependents, or are war widows, or there are plenty of jobs.” The government was far less successful in getting the women who were doing the work to eagerly give it up. 30 Studies and polls conducted in 1944 of working women showed that 75–80 percent of them wanted to keep their jobs after the war ended. 31 — Mediocre, pg 150