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It's true that they started offering health insurance during WWII, but it wasn't specifically to entice women into the workforce, rather it was to be competitive when Roosevelt created the Office of Economic Stabilization, which froze wages. Offering health insurance was a way to get around this.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/upshot/the-real-reason-th...




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