Women In The Home Front

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Before 1914, there were few opportunities for women to work outside of their houses. Men consider them as emotional and fragile beings so that they should not work outside. However, due to the fact that a lot of men went to the battlefields and there were no enough people working in factories to produce goods and supplies, women began to have more chances working in factories and other areas. In Canada, women worked as police, engineers, bank clerks and so on. Overseas, women served in the military as nurses and ambulance drivers. The Great War reflected women’s value in both Home Front and battlefields. After the war, men supposed that women should quit working and continue being housewives, but women had different opinions. They did not quit

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