Explain two ways wartime mobilization impacted the domestic lives of citizens in the United States during the early 1940s.

Women became active participants in the workforce outside the home.

Rationing of many essential products became part of daily life.

Women in the workforce: Between 1940 and 1945 the percentage of women in the American workforce rose from 27% to 37%. The demand for workers pulled not only single women but married women into employment outside the home, elevating the number of married women working to around 25%.

Rationing: Sugar, coffee, butter, cheese, meat, canned foods and various other food products all became subject to rationing, as did other essential products like gasoline and fuel oil.