I&#x27;m not really sure there&#x27;s a lot of evidence that either you or your professor are correct.<p>I don&#x27;t believe there&#x27;s much evidence that there was a permanent jump in the female labour force due to WWII.
Equally, I&#x27;m not sure that there is much correlation between workforce increase and the ownership of washing machines (and yes, I know that correlation != causation but not much correlation != causation either).<p>The hypothesis I&#x27;ve seen that seems to follow the evidence is for the number of women attending higher education but, my guess, is that there were a lot of competing factors rather than one outlier.<p>And no, it doesn&#x27;t make you a bigot for proposing that any more than it makes your prof a warmonger for proposing that WWII was a good thing for women.