INTRODUCTION The ability of women to have equal rights in the United States has long been a debated issue. A right recognized by international law, until recently, had not been recognized for American women, while some critics believe that even today women do not have equal rights. However, elsewhere, women in other countries, such as Saudi Arabia, enjoy far fewer rights than American women. To fully understand the many factors involved in the fight for equal rights for women in America, the purpose of this anthropological investigation is to answer the following research question: The cultural traits and processes of cultural change for American women inflicted by World War II ? of the era allow them to achieve social and economic equality in the United States? Anthropological theory employed: historical particularism The investigation refers to Franz Boas's theory of historical particularism. The definition of historical particularism is: Historical particularism is an approach developed by Franz Boas as an alternative to the world theories of socio-cultural development espoused by both evolutionists and extreme diffusionists, which he believed were simply unprovable. Boas believed that to overcome this problem it was necessary to conduct detailed regional studies of individual cultures to discover the distribution of cultural traits and understand the individual processes of cultural change taking place. Questioning the approach of women during the Second World War to achieve equal rights, it is not necessary to address the world theories of socio-cultural development, unlike most anthropological studies; However, instead, a valuable assortment of research is to reach detailed regional studies of cultural traits to understand the...... middle of paper ......nt, propaganda provides an example of the extremely important role that women they played during World War II. During the war, 18 million American women, also known as “Rosie the Riveters,” served in the U.S. workforce. Propaganda, i.e. posters, songs and even films, commemorated the success achieved by women in defense factories. Slogans such as “We can do it” and “Women at war: without them we cannot win” have accelerated the energy and rallying cries of women. Historians believe that without the efforts of women, the vital economy of the home front might have collapsed, perhaps causing the disintegration of US war production, with very negative consequences. Propaganda spread during this period exemplified women's success, as the opportunities afforded women helped save the home economic front and liberated American women..