It is hard to decide whether or not they were more important with house or field jobs. At home, they would feed, bathe, and get jobs while their husbands were out of the house to fight in the war. However, once the soldiers(men) return back home, women were quickly glossed over and was never given a chance to keep there jobs, though some may not be the case.
On the field however, they were also just as important because of their fearlessness to help those who have been injured during the war. Nurses up to 16 were killed by direct enemy fire when working near the front lines. They also drove trucks, repaired airplanes, worked as laboratory technicians, rigged parachutes, served as radio operators, analyzed photographs, flew military aircraft across the country, test-flew newly repaired planes, and even trained anti-aircraft artillery gunners by acting as flying targets.
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/students-teachers/student-resources/research-starters/women-wwii
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