Reddit reviews Children of the World War II Home Front (Picture the American Past)

You are confusing more freedom with equal treatment. Women still weren't treated on equal footing with men, and considered capable of fulfilling the same tasks.

Furthermore, several sources, including this book, seem to suggest that children also worked during that time.

Here is what I am saying: the difference in treatment of men and women:

• draft/wars - is due to considering women as incapable
  
  
• men sacrificing themselves for women is on the same level as them sacrificing themselves for children.
  
  I am not trying to diminish the losses and suffering of men, but I see the same pattern - women seen as subordinate/less capable, thus some burdens were shifted to men, based on that rationale. Aand I see no other rationale frankly. See also coverture.