With about 10 million men drafted for WW2, what was life like in cities? Was there an obvious lack of men on day to day functions? (i.e going grocery shopping or in traffic) And was the culture more women centered?

by Dora_De_Destroya

Im imagining that for several months, there would be 1 man for every 10 women. So my question is during that time, were women the majority gender in the population? If that was the case, was the general vibe of the time more centric? Would ads target women. Would movies and TV shows and magazines women centered? Was there more of a "girl power" vibe? Or was it business as usualm

unijohn

While you wait for answers to come in, you can look at this response from u/JeepsGunsTanks regarding life in the US during WW2:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/62a1oi/what_was_civilian_life_like_during_ww2_during_ww2/

You can also look at this response from u/LaoBa regarding life in Japan during WW2:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1mjkxz/what_was_it_like_living_in_japan_during_wwii/