The term “feminization” is, as the kids used to say, “suss,"[^1] but this reminds me of one of the points John Willis made in his Deming work.
There was a huge influx of women in corporate work/factories during WWII, and also lots of rapid process change. It was all wildly successful - proven by a clear outcome of winning the war! Then the men came back, patted the women (and Deming-ites) on the head and said “that’s nice, now back to normal…”
Original: Money, Talent, and the War Test: What WWII’s Female Labor Surge Says About “Feminization”
[1]: It usually, effectively, ends up meaning “being better,” or, at the very least “stop being so boorish.”