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The vital role of women during Second World War
During the Second World War, nearly seven million American women took jobs in factories. Another three million volunteered for the Red Cross. And over 200,000 served in non-combatant roles in the ...
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Women and Work After World War II
Tupperware targeted women who were interested in working, Tupperware, Inc. During the Second World War, women proved that they could do "men's" work, and do it well. With men away to serve in the ...
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Women's Experiences of the Second World War
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The forgotten ‘comfort women’ of the Philippines – and their struggle for justice
Activists push for reparations and recognition of the sexual enslavement endured by 1,000 Filipino women during Japan’s ...
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WW2: Did the war change life for women?
When the Second World War broke out in 1939 just over five million women were in work. By 1943 that number stood well in excess of seven million. As men from all over the country joined the fight ...
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Canada Remembers: Women Who Have Served and Sacrificed
During the Second World War, women served in non-combat support roles in the Royal Navy as WRENS, the air force women's division and in the Canadian Women's Army Corps. Many women also took over ...
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Essex women pictured at work during Second World War
Our photo gallery today celebrates some of the many Essex women who were really cutting it during the Second World War. They were also ploughing it, driving it, planting it and building it ...
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Trained to See Three Women and the War
During the Second World War women were for the first time allowed to work as war correspondents Based on reports letters and diary excerpts filmmaker Luzia Schmid sketches a personal portrait of ...
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The Second World War
One major change was that many women continued to work in their new roles rather than returning to traditional jobs as happened at the end of the First World War. The Second World War was also a ...
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10 fascinating facts about women during the First World War
The free First World War Women of Norfolk on Active Service exhibition ... their bit' and women's fashion changed forever. ? 7 - The second largest export after munitions for war was fodder ...
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Women and Work After World War II
Tupperware targeted women who were interested in working, Tupperware, Inc. During the Second World War, women proved that they could do "men's" work, and do it well. With men away to serve in the ...