What did women do during World War 1 and 2?

Answer 1

Women roles in World War 2 were very important. Most of them did not get out there and fight. When the men were gone the women did their jobs. Some of their jobs were like: working in factories, shipyards, building aircrafts, etc. They made a big influence in women history. Women also went through hard times. For example items ran low, and there family (men and some women) died during combat! So it was not all about the more freedom and rights they got. During the time of World War Two, many men left for the war, leaving jobs at home. Women promptly went to fill these jobs and others needed during wartime. The challenging part was that many women worked a night shift and still had the responsibility of maintaining the household and raising her children. For mothers with children not old enough to be in school, daycare was hard to find. Banks and grocery shops also made it hard for women to keep the household running. Although some working women had to quit their jobs maintain the household, women were a key part in winning World War 2. Then when the men came home from the Holocaust they wanted all of their jobs back. So the women had to give up their jobs and give them back to the men. Although the women really liked there jobs that they had done for the past months. Latter on they had the women rights and the women could do things that the men had done before.

During World War 2 women played an important role overseas and in the homefront and it changed and improved women’s place in the Australian society of today. Before the war few women followed careers. Most jobs for women were traditional roles such as nursing, secretarial or caring jobs.

Some women in World War 2 volunteered for the land army because all the men were away. So the Australian land army was set up to get girls to take the men’s places. They worked on farms at places like Mt Compass, Buckleboo and Gumeracha. They were looked after because they got free work clothes and food.

In the war women were cooks, stewardesses, transport drivers, signallers, coders, writers, cinematographer operators, visual signallers and there were girls working in classified sections. Others were trained as nurses and motor mechanics. The women go told they would never be permitted to go overseas but in 1941 the government announced that women would now be allowed to enrol in the armed forces. Only nurses would serve overseas and in battle zones. Some 300,000 women served in the army, navy and nursing corps, and a quarter of these served overseas.

The Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service was formed in 1941. They did not go overseas. They worked with communications. The Women’s Australian Auxiliary Air Force was also formed in 1941. They worked as radio communications and did mechanical repairs. Australian Women’s Army Service formed in 1941 if Australia was attacked they could fight but they could not replace the men fighting. The Australian Army Medical Women’s Service formed in 1942. They were nurses in Britain, Greece, North Africa, Malaya and Papua.

WAAF in 1941 had 29 women and 300 men. The WAAF put signs at universities reading ‘if you are about to graduate, apply for a commission in the WAAF. Each person does a course from navigational and operations to accounts or equipment/

At home during the war women made up 40 per cent of the work force in munitions factories. Women worked in aircraft and ship building industries also they worked in industries doing mechanical and maintenance work all the women received training. Women also became tram conductors, bus drivers, taxi drivers, security guards, mail delivers, bread carters and meter readers. Women were paid lower wages then men. Many women hoped that these jobs would still be open to them after the war had ended but they were not.

World War 2 changed the lives of Australian women. Before the war women were housewives and mainly looked after the family and home. When the war started and the men left, women had to take the empty places of the men who were at war. They showed that they could manage work, family and home all together. Also proved that they could do as much work as a man does at his job and still get paid less.

I think that World War 2 improved the place of women in society for the better

Answer 2

In the UK they did many things.

Civilian women took over the jobs done by the men who had gone to war. Everyhting from working in munitions factories, to farming.

Women pilots ferried fighter planes from the factories to front line airfields.

Also clearly there were women in all branches of the armed services as drivers, air traffic controllers, medical staff, and administration.

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Answer 4

They took care of the home and chioldren plus worked in the factories and had varous kinds of drives to collect things needed, they were nurses and helped in the war take care of the men

Answer 5

Work in factories, etc. while their husbands/boyfriends were overseas. Some married women were pregnant, and usually were made to live with the husband's family.

Answer 6

Did rapes occur? Yes, however If you are going to post this, try giving some credible sources for your figures. Also we would need to see comparable figures for Nazi Occupation Forces in France and Nazi German National statistics for rapes by German soldiers in Germany as well as figures for the amount of German women raped by the Soviet troops.

Answer 7

some made rivits for boats & planes.

some played baseball....have you seen the movie "a League of their Own".....its based on a true story.

Thats durring the time of the Women's baseball league.
cause all the men went to war.

Answer 8

They did everything!!!! Factory worker, bomb maker, plane maker, plumber, electrician, mechanic, pilots,... You name it, they did it. Artillery crew for homeland security, air raid wardens.... the list goes on. Had the pleasure to meet two ladies who were WAC's that flew the new planes out of the factory. Test piloted them to make sure they performed correctly, and then flew them to the demarcation point for shipping to the war front.

Answer 9

women took over mens roles while the men were at war.

Answer 10

They took over jobs that were open because the men were enlisting. Clerks, factory jobs just about everything.