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Summarize the main idea of the following selection about women during WWII.
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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du
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jour brought to you by the baby boom which is
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not a euphemism Baby goes the bathroom We're not talking
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about that All right Taking the following passage women in
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world war two i mean w w w two depression
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- 00:19
So we're going to pick out key words here again
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Atlantic pacific manpower commission agents All right which of the
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effects of women working during world war two is not
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supported by the selection and hear the potential answers or
- 00:33
not All right no need to sweat this one The
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passage gives us all we need A quick review of
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the third paragraph right here lets us know that we
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can eliminate option a We hear all about how female
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workers helped factories to pump out products needed for the
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war effort This one's totally supported by the selection So
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it's gotta go way could send option c out right
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along with it The last sentence in the selection tells
- 00:57
us that women's wartime savings did indeed helped a launch
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prosperity in the nineteen fifties Apparently there was nothing to
- 01:02
spend money on during the war so saving money was
- 01:05
easy If only that were the case these days we'll
- 01:07
know your piggy banks would have a little more change
- 01:09
in their bellies will also eliminate choice The last paragraph
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tells us that working women became an everyday thing in
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later decades but we live in later decades So that's
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no surprise to us We'll correct answer is b because
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it's the only choice that's not supported by the selection
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nowhere does the selection claim that fewer women got married
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and had kids time directly after world war two is
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called The baby boom if that tells you anything Luckily
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it was time of huge growth and families and not
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an era of bacon Don't do that when a baby 00:01:44.255 --> [endTime] goes the bathroom
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