The Changing Roles Of Women During World War One

Women were not respected equally as men and even though they worked really tough, they were recognized as the ones who had to substitute men and their activities since men went to fight for their country. Basically, World War 1 had many changes in gender norms and traditional roles. Women worked everyday for almost twenty hours a day. They had many jobs in the ones’ they could be in. In factories, women helped by packing cordite and explosives into bullets and shells. But functioning in these factories was really unsafe. Women sometimes died from TNT poisoning and some of them developed diseases (Ministry of History). This made their hair fall and their skin to turn yellow. What people don’t realize is that women sacrificed a lot during World War one.

While men were fighting during World War 1 women worked. Without women, men

As already stated, there were many jobs women could join. Some of them included being a nurse (this was the most common job), construction worker, secretaries, telephone operators, office cleaners, shop assistants, train drivers, postal workers, ambulance drivers, land army, they cooked for soldiers and the most important work was working in munitions factories were women produced weapons, food, clothing, and other things they needed on the war front. Because of all the worked women did they established a vigorous base of support in the labor unions, temperance organizations, settlement of houses, and reform movements. They also sustained their country economically, but didn't get something in rebound. Then, after the war, people mostly men still considered that women shouldn't have the right to vote. Women later realized that keeping their country's economic position wasn't sufficient to give them the right to