"But the right to behave like a man [means] also the right to misbehave as he does. The decay of established mortalities [comes] about as a by-product."
As the war began women were given the chance to do things that were un presented in the recent years. Women were asked to step up and take on the roles that men had previously bared prior to the war. however with these roles women were also able to behave like men. They began to be seen in factories, at parties, and out in society rather than just locked in the household. This picture shows the women possessing the role of men by partying, and man having the role of women by answering the door and catering to the women. This so called "role change" was merely a temporary reversal because as soon as the war came to a close, women were placed back in to their women like tasks.
Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound (Basic Books, 1988) P. 59
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