During World War II, women commonly received a lower wage than their male counterparts. Even though women were desperately needed because most men were absent due to the war, they were still continuously denied opportunities for training and advancement. Even though the increase in job availability seemed opportunistic the downside was that the war made discrimination against women profitable. Factories and other companies were encouraged to hire women for their cheap labor, not their skill. The Cold War influenced women in numerous ways. After the war, 1945-1947, in attempt to prevent female access to jobs once considered strictly masculine, the Henry Taft Law of 1947 was introduced. This law allowed restrictions against strikes; leaving little to no way for women to express their opinions against the sexism they were experiencing in the workforce. Women were continuously probed with the thought that their place was at home. Even thought it appears that over time women have made significant progress against sexism, it appears that this progress wasn’t made for the right reasons; in most cases women were being taken advantage of for cheap labor. In order to encourage women to join the workforce in 1943, the War and Manpower Commission started campaigns advertising their necessity to work; jobs once strictly offered to men were now opening their doors to women. Advertisements placed in newspaper ads, radio time and films were used to attract women into accepting the jobs they were once kept far away from; billboards comparing women’s at home tasks to mechanical work were commonly used. August Clawson was a federal government worker who worked for a shipyard in Oregon. Women were not accepted into shipbuilding until World War II. At first employers were worried whether women would be able to adjust to the change in work place environment and expectations. They were surprised with the results. Women had no problem adjusting to their n