Women in the Workforce At the onset of WW2, women typically did not work unless they were from the lower classes. But when WW2 started, men left to fight in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters. So, women entered the workforce in droves. The War Manpower Commission recruited women into employ...
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Hello David, Do you know if working-class women from the UK worked in Hong Kong before WWII or during the war? I have conducted some preliminary research which says that British women did work as nannies and cooks at mainly ex pat homes in Hong Kong. I do know that more educated women...
The Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) was established in June 1939 with Miss Jane Trefusis-Forbes (1899-1971) as its first Director. In World War I she had been one of the first group of women to wear khaki; joining the Women's Volunteer Reserve, formed in 1914 to set more men fr...
s homes.? (Dr Strom and Wood, pg. 1) More married women were at work in the 1930?s than in the 1920?s but they held the lowest paying jobs. Society at this time did not view women as equals and the pay they received reflected this attitude. ?In 1939 male teachers made an ...
The post on r/CHIBears, which focuses on the American football (not what they would call soccer) team Chicago Bears, argued that the ban was necessary given “the values of our team and history of players who fought in WW2.” Many other subreddits also mentioned the salute as the ...
Women Employment Rise During World War I Largely ignored by the Government, women did not become involved in war work on a huge scale until after the first year of war. To begin with their growth in the workplace was confined to the munitions factories and voluntary work. However, women wa...
2)As an invaluable historical source, Anna’s work gives us an insight into the Byzantine world in the middle ages and of the reign of her father Alexius I - including her views toward the crusaders coming from western Europe. 3)In her time, she would have had considerable influence on ...
After WW2, with the onset of the Cold War, by virtue of an Anglo-Australian Joint Venture, Australia became a centre for scientific research into rockets and long-range weapons (including Britain's atomic warheads) testing. By the mid 1950s a new outback town - Woomera had been created ...
In 1915, Carrie Chapman Catt took over as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She revitalized the organization and made the choice to support the war effort in 1917. The women’s war work of the NAWSA turned them into much more visible symbols of nationalism, which...