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 ...

Activists push for reparations and recognition of the sexual enslavement endured by 1,000 Filipino women during Japan’s ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

The names of 77 former Newnham College students recruited to Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, during the Second World War were uncovered after five years of research. Three Newnham women pieced ...

More than 250,000 women served in the ATS during the Second World War, making it the largest of the women’s services. As part of the conscription requirement women had to choose whether to enter ...

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 ...

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 ...