Women’s Role in Wwi: Before and After

World War 1 lasted from August in 1914 until November 1918. By the end of the War there had been over a million deaths and the role of women in England had changed in many different ways. This essay will be evaluating to what extent WW1 was a turning point for women, through evaluating a variety of contributing sources for their usefulness and reliability. Traditionally, WW1 has been viewed as a positive turning point for women. This is because before WW1 women had mainly been resigned to the role of a housewife and were considered to be inferior. Women that did work were mainly working class, and worked in domestic service jobs. However, between 1914 and 1918 an estimated 2 million women replaced men in employment, which led to the passing of the People 's Registration Act in 1918. Which finally gave women the right to vote, something the suffragettes and suffragists had been campaigning for before the war, creating the impression that WW1 was a positive turning point. However, revisionist historians have been challenging this viewpoint. They argue that although women replaced men in the workplace, following the men 's return after the end of the war, 60,000 women had no choice but to return to their former jobs. Which suggests WW1 was not a positive turning point as this was a quarter of the female workforce.

In the years after the Second World War, people created uncountable numbers of historiographical research on various topics related to the war, such as military tactics in battles, individual groups of men during their time in service, and other such subjects. Not much surprise exists then, that women’s actions in World War II eventually would also gain interest and publication for the public, though it did not gain an undivided focus until the advent of women’s and social history grew momentum. Women, despite being half of the world’s population, doubtlessly had acted during the war years, although limited by social gender expectations of the period. As time passes from 1945, more interest in the lives of women and their effect on the war

During the end of the Progressive Era, World War I began. “During the conflict that was placed before them, [women] not only gained the gratitude of many in their

“Before World War II, the prevailing view of a woman's role was that of wife and mother”. Many jobs were kept for men and in some instances married woman weren’t allowed to work. World War II changed these social injustices rather drastically. Woman changed the perceptions of gender roles, during World War II. Woman played a huge role in the war helping out the army, the community and filling occupations becoming a key asset in World War II.

World War II, one of the biggest and most devastating wars in history, was fought in an effort to defeat Hitler and the Third Reich after their invasion of Poland. Adolf Hitler had previously annexed Czechoslovakia and Austria, but neither France nor Great Britain took action. The invasion of Poland, however, forced the countries to take action, so in September of 1939, both nations declared war on Germany1. World War II brought about major improvements in technology and laid the foundation for postwar socioeconomic changes such as the civil rights movement and the modern women’s rights movement. After their husbands were sent overseas to aid in the war effort, housewives across the

From the beginning of World War I to World War II women’s roles have evolved over time. Women played many important roles in both wars, but in WWII women’s roles took a giant leap and women were able to show their worth. Throughout WWII, opportunities for women increased. Women were now able to take part in the war and were also given leadership roles.

when World War I broke out, women’s roles changed from being moms to munitions workers and many women also took part in the army serving soldiers and officers as nurses, helpers and occasionally as spies.

In this book, Brown pointed about women did during the World War I back in America’s homeland. She explains what they did on the homeland while military women and men were at war. The Chapters explains the factory workers struggles and working in the war industries. Brown describes women beginning to expand their skills. This source is helpful to know that there were women took part of war even if they weren’t near the battlefields.

When the First World War began in 1914, there was much discussion regarding the proper gender roles for British men and women. For men, the course of action seemed clear that they should enlist and fight. Yet, many men struggled under the pressure of warfare. For women, it was unclear how they should be involved in the war effort. Many men wanted the women to keep their traditional gender roles of taking care of the household. However, the lack of male workers on the home front required women to take on different work roles. The women received a great deal of praise and positive attention for their work as nurses, munitions workers, and military auxiliaries. However, men were critical

As the outbreak of WWI (World War I), the world was under a huge changing period regarding technologies, ideologies and civilizations. Impacts were inevitable from war, thousands of sacrifices, ruined families, and even the fall of countries. However, it is undisputed that the WWI changed the women 's historical process, particularly in European countries. Women 's employment scale was largely over prewar level; their status and position in wartime and postwar evoked a dispute. On one hand, the WWI brought the women unprecedented massive scale of employment that used to be unthinkable for them in the wartime; however, on the contrary, the war led to a rare proper sense of citizenship for women. This essay aims to take an analysis on how and what did the WWI made the impact on women in the former European countries. Firstly, it will focus on employments situations for women in wartime, how they react to these changes and the negative dissatisfactory after they urged more rights. Secondly, it will take some cases of European countries as examples to illustrate that though there were an increasing number of feminist movements and women began to fight for their political rights the frustrations and definition from the society’s conservative prevented women into the public sphere.

To what extent did the First World War change the lives of women in Britain? The First World War was extremely significant in changing women’s lives, but it wasn’t the only reason for change to come about. The suffrage movement was the most important factor, but the war combined with events before the war made change inevitable. This essay will be split into before the war– social change, actions of the WSPU and NUWSS; work and political change during the war and after the war.

As the readings and videos portray, women’s participation had a profound impact on a country’s success in both world wars. As the article, “Women in the Military World War I and II,” indicates women made up for the deficits in labor, in both agriculture and industry. The participation in World War II for women was much greater than that of World War I. This becomes evident when, “More than ten times as many women served in most militaries during World War II as had served during World War I, although the size of the militaries as a whole only doubled or tripled” (Women in the Military World War I and II). Not only were they participating in labor work, many women were now serving in auxiliaries, nursing corps, and some even playing combat

1.4 Gender roles during Social upheaval: One of the most obvious examples of social upheaval is during war, more specifically World War 1 and World War 2. During these two periods we saw the change in the roles that society played. The men were the brave fighters during war, but women also played a role, as stated in War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System by Joshua S.Goldstein: ‘More than 25,000 US women who served in Europe in World War I did so on an entrepreneurial basis, especially before 1917. They helped nurse the wounded, provide food and other supplies to the military, serve as telephone operators, entertain troops, and work as journalists.’

Social changes were also quite prominent during the First World War. Women were challenging the

The formation of the Women’s Social and Political Union and the entrance of Britain into World War I forced the issues of women’s suffrage into the minds of the British public and government at a pivotal time, but in differing ways. Women of both movements stepped out of their sphere of domesticity and into the male dominated world. The militant members of the Women’s Social and Political Union achieved this non-traditional status by opposing their society and government by means of increasingly violent methods. Conversely the British women involved in aiding the war effort worked with their country in a time of need. The militant suffrage movement, while often praised for its boldness, actually had many detrimental effects on the achievement