Some women “felt they were needed at home to raise families, crops for food and to fill the jobs that the men had vacated in order to serve their country.”(Suite101) Women’s lives on the home front during World War II were a significant part of the war effort for all participants and had a major impact on the outcome of the war. Once the men went off to war and left their jobs, the women that were single had a great advantage because job opportunities were everywhere. In the other hand married women had a tough time, especially if they had children. Hundreds of women worked in machine shops, welding shops, manufacturing plants, and also worked in war industries to make equipment for the war. New industries, naval, and army bases were being built during the home front.
Slacks and Calluses: Our Summer in a Bomber Factory Women had different perspectives during World War 2. Many served in different branches of armed forces. Some labored in war productions plants. Most women stayed at home and had other responsibilities to raise children, balance check books, and some labored in war-related office jobs, while the men went to war. In addition to factory work and other front jobs about 350,000 women joined the Armed services, serving at home and abroad.
Women were once only seen in homes cleaning and cooking and the era of Rosie was the first step in women’s rights. Though at the end of the war men returned to their old factory jobs forcing women out of their maculating jobs, they showed women as a whole that they could do the same thing men could. While women did not end up reentering the work force until the 1970’s they were not in such high demand at this time either
Because of men and women leaving for war, many young women and once unemployed wives had to take over their roles back home and become the main supplier for everything. Women active in the war, however, began to change the way men and society viewed them. Men started respecting
The lives of women on the Home Front were greatly affected by World War I The lives of women were greatly affected by the war, mainly in a positive way in the long run. Before the war upper-class women did not work, in contrast working class women worked in professions such as maids or working in factories as a way to provide for their families. Statistics show that as many as 11% of women worked as domestic servants before the war. The war also helped the social status of women dramatically in a positive manner as well as giving women the chance to work in a greater variety of jobs, although after the war they were expected to return to their original traditional housewife role. When the war broke out in August 1914, thousands of women lost their jobs in dressmaking, millenary and jewellery making.
The jobs that were previously done by men were now opened up to women. A typical man’s job, which comprised of working in the munitions factories, shipyards, farm, coal mines, drivers or bus conductors were now filled by women. The reason that this dramatic change occurred was because the men of the country were away fighting in the war. The war did not only create jobs at home but it also provided them with a chance to experience the outer world. It offered many women great opportunities to volunteer for the uniform services e.g.
Women of all color, during World War II, were able to have tons of freedom expansion and were able to create a new place in society for themselves. When the males of the families had to leave overseas to fight in the military, women were expected to take over the male jobs in factories and perform work other than household duties. These duties in the factories consisted of making munitions and war supplies. Women not only did jobs meant for men in factories, they also performed jobs outside of the factories. According to Sarah Killngsworth, “The war started and jobs kinda opened up for women that men had.
The Women’s Voluntary Service provided fire fighters with tea and refreshments when the clear-up took place after a bombing raid. The WVS had one million members by 1943. Most were quite elderly as the younger women were in the factories or working on farms and were too exhausted to do extra work once they had finished their shift. Women were also used as secret agents. They were members of SOE (Special Operations Executive) and were usually parachuted into occupied France or landed in special Lysander planes.
This shows how women were treated in the late 1800s, probably before, and the early 1900s. The role of Australian women at the time of world war 1 was to all the jobs the men that went to war left behind like farming, running factories ect. They already had to help make clothes and socks for soldiers and cook and clean. The women in Australia had a lot of stress put in them because the men left, yes there was one or two less mouths to feed but that just added more jobs to the list of things to do. Women had to deal with everyday life alone, they had to take care of children and get a decent
Women helped cure many troops during the war. Because of the numerous amounts of soldiers being wounded in the trenches everyday, women were brought to the front line to help and cure the injured by joining the humanitarian organization, the American Red Cross. It was surely not an easy task, for the women ran the risk of being hit by a stray bullet, or even shelled during the enemy’s bombardment. Women without any medical knowledge usually served as drivers in ambulances, also