When we look at the history of women's paid employment in Canada, we can see that society has come a long way. Previously, women's work was done at home, in the private sphere. His job was to only take care of the home and the children. We would rarely see women working for wages comparable to those of poor women; only because their families needed the income. The only jobs available to women were primarily domestic service, work related to the private sphere of the home. People believed that if a woman had a paid job, she took away a man's salary, otherwise she would become too manly. During World War II, this belief changed; women must now be an essential part of the workforce. Women were desperately needed to replace men at work while they fought in war. Essentially, World War II opened the doors to women's work outside the home and redefined the role of women in the paid employment sector. The Second World War redefined the work of Canadian women in factories as well as typically male jobs. This period allowed white women and black women to find a place in the job market. To begin with, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Canada was industrializing; thus, there was a shift from rural agriculture to urban industrialism. This meant that women could no longer participate in the family income, in the family act of living off the fruits of farm labor, as men were transferred to the factories where there was a wage. Women were excluded from this type of employment due to an "ideology of domesticity" which asserted that "women should be mothers and housewives and demonstrate piety, purity, domesticity and submission ". It was believed that if women entered... middle of paper... "the job": the sexual division of labor in the automobile industry during World War II. In Women and Power: In American History, 3rd ed., edited by Katheryn K. Sklar and Thomas Dublin. New Jersey: Pearson, 2009. 242-252 Pierson, Ruth Roach. “Canadian Women and the Second World War.” Canadian Historical Society, No. 37 (1983): 3-27. Rupp, Leila J.. “From Rosie the Riveter to the Global Assembly Line: American Women on the World Stage.” » OAH Magazine of History 18, no. 4 (2004): 53-57. Simmons, Christina. “Job Overview”. Lecture, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, February 28, 2012. Toman, Cynthia. “Front Lines and Borders: War as Legitimate Work for Nurses, 1939-1945.” In Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History, 6th ed., edited by Mona Gleason, Adele Perry, and Tamara Myers. Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press, 2011. 242-255.