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Women at WarWomen at War
1939-1945
Women’s role before the war
“A woman’s place is in the home”
Domestic life: Child rearing
Men work & Women stay home
War Begins
Men enlist by the millions leaving jobs with no workers
Women are encouraged to go into the work force.
This causes a drastic change in gender roles in every nation.
Life on the Home Front
Women take over traditional male roles
They go to work in factories and farms by the thousands supporting the war effort
Rationing imposes hardships
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Women in UniformCase Study: US Armed Services “free a man for the front line” Worked mostly clerical, support roles
including mechanics, cooks, & secretaries
Women’s Army Corp
100,000 Joined
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WAVES
11,000 Joined
Army and Navy Nurses
68,000 Women served to nurse wounded soldiers
Russia: Women were Front Line Soldiers
First country in the world to allow women in front line combat.
Soviets made no distinctions between men and women
Women made excellent snipers
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Secret Agents, Saboteurs, & Partisans
Due to the Sexist ideas of the age women were able to effectively fight a covert war against the enemy
Reporters and Photographers News coverage encouraged many women
to get jobs as correspondents.
After the War The new found freedom for women both in
the US and elsewhere was taken away as men returned.
Governments encouraged women to “return to the home and family”
