Rationing. Price controls. Wage freezes. Inflation soared to double digits prior to some of this. Shortage of manufactured goods. The woman were paid about 1/3 of their male counterparts working at a plant or line-cheap exploitable labor. The US hadn’t offshored its manufacturing base or shut down major parts of the extraction of its raw materials sectors.
The US also didn’t enter the war with debt at levels it incurred throughout the war, nor did it have anywhere near the weight of current social spending and unfunded liabilities of Social Security, Medicaid, and other non-discretionary programs (SS existed but was smaller and sanely funded.