Despite increased job opportunities and an apparent boon to independence, women were ultimately used as tools during the First World War, and thus experienced no real change in how society viewed them or how they were expected to behave. Firstly, when all Canadian men capable of labour went abroad to fight, women were offered jobs heretofore off-limits to them, such as manufacturing. With every household breadwinner gone and unsure to return, this would seem like an unprecedented opportunity for women to break the role of housewife and caretaker and instead contribute directly to the war effort, the national economy, and their own purses. However, as a rule, women were paid significantly less than men. If this was not a sufficient injustice,
