"[General Marshall] foresaw a cycle of shortages; that of the moment was the supply shortage, in which the scarcity of supplies hindered mobilization, but he now became convinced that the bottleneck of the future would be that of manpower. He also considered the fact that war had become a complicated business which needed many civilian techniques, and that many of these were almost completely in the control of women. General Marshall asked me why we should try to train men in a specialty such as typing or telephone work which in civilian life has been taken over completely by women; this, he felt, was uneconomical and a waste of time which we didn't have."-Source: Interview with Colonel John H. Hilldring, United States Army in World War II Special Studies The Women's Army Corps, 1946]A historian would most likely use this passage to illustrate which of the following?

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