-Seen for “traditional” roles and duties.
-Recognized as objects of beauty, not for what they did.

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Men head overseas
Women fill the void

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Help win the war (work in munitions factories)
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Feed their families (earn some money)

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Emergency war jobs, phone operators, telegraphers and stenographers, Rail
Road Workers,
Military supplies
Welders, fitters, machinists, riveters
Read pg.97 “Working
A Munitions Factory”
Paid ½ men’s wages

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Woman can help fight the war at home;
– Conserve coal, fuel, food, clothing, money
– Prepare items for war (cloths, blanket, etc)
This is done through Peer and Media pressure
Knit socks, scarves, balaclavas, pillows, sheets, flannel shirts etc.

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With sons and husbands away, women grouped together and were paid to farm.
Hard labour, as tractors and fuel were saved for the war effort.
Women also would raise money for the war effort.

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VAD, Voluntary Aid Detachment
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FANY, Fist aid nurses Yeomanry
- drove ambulances
- bathed patients
- removed bodies
- soup kitchens
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2000 women enlisted in Canadian Armed forces as nurses
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1000 Canadian Women were employed by the Royal Air Force as truck drivers, mechanics and ambulance drivers.

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A military hospital, taken around Christmas time in
1914
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Often overcrowded and understaffed during WWI

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“We slept in our clothes and cut our hair short so that it would tuck inside our caps.
Dressing simply meant putting on our boots. There were times when we had to scrape the lice off with the blunt edge of a knife and our cloths stuck to us” Elizabeth de T’Saecales, nurse on front line
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Nurse were 16+

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 a hospital ship assigned to the Canadian service and full of nursing sisters was torpedoed on the night of June
27th,1918
234 lost their lives, including 14 Nursing Sisters another major disaster took place when the Germans bombed the Canadian hospitals at France.
All in all, 56 nursing sisters were killed during WW1

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TRAGEDY FOR WOMEN IN WWI
“...within 10 minutes of being struck, the Llandovery
Castle went to the bottom, and for nearly two hours the enemy submarine, in an apparent attempt to destroy all evidence of this breach of the Geneva Convention, systematically shelled or tried to ram and sink lifeboats and wreckage on which helpless victims floated...”

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WW1 turning point for women
1. Work in factories
2. Homefront war effort
3. Nurses on front lines
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Women start to emerge from male-dominated society
Earn right to vote in 1918
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Answer questions 1-3 on page 98

Quebec Premier, Henri Bourassa
“It is the introduction of feminism in its most noxious guise, the voter women, who would soon spon the man-woman, that hybrid and repungnant monster who wil kill the mother-women and the womanwomen.”