Women's Role In Ww2 Essay

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In World War II (WWII) the Allied victory was attributed to many things, one of which was the women who mainly supported soldiers from the home front. In WWII women played a large role in supporting Canada, and if it was not for them Canada would have lost the war. They supported from the home front, they supported at the warfront, and they supported from behind the scenes.
Women at the beginning of the war only supported from the home front, mainly in factories to help Canada in the war effort. They built guns, bombs and artillery to help Canada defend itself and other countries. Women also knitted mittens, socks, scarfs, and made parcels and care packages for the soldiers that were overseas. This kept all the soldiers warm and gave them a taste of home because the trenches were typically cold and the bottom of trenches had water so the socks would really help keep them warm, they also didn’t have very good food, it was mainly processed and very bland so the care packages were very enjoyable for the soldiers. Even …show more content…

They didn’t physically fight in the war, they were part of organizations like the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRENS) in which they did jobs like cipher duties in which they decoded messages, they had coder duties where they made coded messages, they learnt how to use telephone switch boards, and many others. All these jobs were given to women with the idea that women could do the simple jobs that were very crucial and men could do all the heavy work in the war. By the end of the war 39 trades had been declared as open to the WRENS. Another group of women would be The Women's Auxiliary Airforce(WAAF) who helped transport auxiliary. However that wasn’t their only job, they had many other jobs like ferrying aircrafts from factories to squadron, they had volunteers from Canada, United States, and the United Kingdom making them a huge part of winning the

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