Enrolled women of all classes benefited in various ways. What all of these social groups had in common was that, for the first time, young single women, cut free from patriarchal systems and economic dependence were earning their own income, and living away from home were...
Brittain complains how, far from being welcome, VADs were constantly under the suspicion by professional nurses of being intruders after their jobs, which they certainly were not.Brittain writes that the reason why she joined in was sympathy for the ordeal of her fiancé at the front; in her...
The poem treats “women” as a single group and assumes that they are immune to the realities of war. In truth, while women were forbidden to serve in active combat, many took jobs in manufacturing (referenced in the poem) and farming and provided vital medical aid on the battlefield. So...
Born and raised in Sri Lanka, Tas came to Manchester in August 2005. Since then, she has finished a Masters degree and a PhD. Her first community project was setting up a reading group, and her lifelong passion for words and stories led to writing too. Along the way she learned to spe...
women work in heavy blue-collar jobs, except for coal mining. Nevertheless, there still is a traditional labor division by gender: teachers and nurses are mostly women; school administrators and physicians are mostly men. Women in typically female jobs such as teachers and nurses are paid less ...
Veterans Day (then known as Armistice Day) began as a commemoration to acknowledge the heroism of those who died and to show gratitude for the WW1 victory. Over time, it evolved into an opportunity for Americans to show thanks to all of those who have served our nation in one of the ...
Honno has just published the amazing story of Lily Tobias, a little known Welsh-Jewish writer who took an active role in some of the most famous movements of the 20thcentury from women’s suffrage, to supporting conscientious objectors in WW1 and the setting up of a Jewish state in Palest...