So women played a main role in the war as well as men because if someone was to be shot the medic which was normally a women would have to go and get him and try and help him. http://252320527578819796.weebly.com/womens-jobs-in-ww1.html World War Two The story of women’s employment during WWI was repeated during WWII. During WWII women worked in factories producing munitions, building ships, aeroplanes, in the auxiliary services as air-raid wardens, fire officers and evacuation officers, as drivers of fire engines, trains and trams, as conductors and as nurses. entry of women into occupations which were regarded as highly skilled and as male preserves, for example as drivers of fire engines, trains and trams and in the engineering, metal and shipbuilding industries, renewed debates about equal pay. despite the steady increase in women’s employment rates since the 1920s, a married woman’s place was still considered to be in the home http://www.striking-women.org/module/women-and-work/world-war-ii-1939-1945 Interwar The league of Nations – 10 Jan 1920 Hitlers Program of rearmament – 15 march 1935 ( Hitler was planning on expanding Germany with force
For many of the women the war was ‘a genuinely liberating experience’ (first world war, accessed 07/01/09), and made the women feel useful as citizens. Also for some women it gave them the freedom that only men had enjoyed so far and ‘offered escape from jobs of badly paid drudgery’ (war and gender, accessed 22/01/09). In one women’s words it was said to be like ‘being let out of a cage’ (war and gender, accessed 22/01/09). The fact that it offered women freedom gives the impression that World War One did have a positive effect on the role of women. In support of the World War One having a positive effect on the women’s role.
There are many women who used their photography skills during World War II to examine and bring the different faces of the war to the masses. One of the famous female photographers, Toni Frissell, had a career photographing fashion and the upper class for magazines like Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. She knew a lot of the country’s wealthy people, and when she decided on a career change, her family did not approve. Once war came to the country, she forayed into photographing nurses, orphans, African-American airmen, WACs, and soldiers. She worked for the American Red Cross, Eighth Army Air Force and the Women’s Army Corps.
They began to take up jobs that would be considered unsuitable for women before 1914, such as working in munitions factories and other war industries. Many women volunteered to work overseas as nurses or ambulance drivers. They also drove buses, streetcars, and worked on police forces and civil service jobs. They were also needed for agriculture. Almost all jobs men did before they left to fight in the war were now a women’s job.
There was a massive disruption of the industries in which women were mostly employed, such as dress-making and textiles. This, in the end, was actually a benefit. As war work became available, such as munitions factories, many of those women could now work in a higher paid job as well as do their part in the war effort. Women in the domestic services even left their jobs in order to work for higher paid jobs2. The first world war gave women more opportunity in the workplace as more occupations were open to them and the war also
Patrick Blain Women of World War II Many Canadians believe that men are the ones who won the war, but we also have to remember all those who played a substantial role behind the scenes of all the action, the women. On the home front they made weapons and military crafts for those in battle. Many women were also near the battlefields nursing and taking care of wounded soldiers. WWII also brought women to the fighting front where they helped fighters in the Army, the Navy and the Air Force. In WWII women played an enormously tremendous role in Canada’s victory both on the home front and the war front.
Countless numbers of women enrolled and started training in the field of coastal defence, shipping protection and overseas duties. Later on, many women served in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) headquarters and on stations of the Canadian bomber group. However, during the war, the RCAF was divided into three major forces. One force was engaged in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP), while another was employed in theatres of war overseas, and the third was
These women, each of whom had already obtained their pilot's license prior to service, became the first women to fly American military aircraft. They ferried planes from factories to bases, transporting cargo and participating in simulation strafing and target missions, accumulating more than 60 million miles in flight distances and freeing thousands of male U.S. pilots for active duty in World War II. More than 1,000 WASPs served, and 38 of them lost their lives during the war. Considered civil service employees and without official military status, these fallen WASPs were granted no military honors or benefits, and it wasn't until 1977 that the WASPs received full military status. While women worked in a variety of positions previously closed to them, the aviation industry saw the greatest increase in female workers.
Women took on jobs that were traditionally regarded as skilled men's work. However, women undertaking jobs during the war lost their jobs at the end of the World War I. ========================================= In World War I, for example, thousands of women worked in munitions factories, offices and large hangars used to build aircraft. [1] Of course women were also
Women of WWII World War II was the beginning of many changes, particularly for women. During WWII, there were many women war correspondents including Clare Boothe Luce, Elisabeth May Adams Craig, and photo journalist Esther Bubley. While there were almost 130 accredited women correspondents during this time, these three stood out to me. Clare Boothe Luce was a Congresswoman, a play writer, a war correspondent for Life, and an ambassador to Italy (Biography, 2015). Luce was considered one of the toughest women of WWII.