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These wartime experiences helped spur gender equality movements, including the battle for women’s suffrage. During the war women won the right to vote in a number of countries, including Canada, Germany, and Russia, while women in the United States gained the privilege shortly after WWI ended.
Discuss. Women, wages and rights. Women munition workers sorting shells during the First World War. Credit: TUC Collections, London Metropolitan University. Women’s employment rates increased during WWI, from 23.6% of the working age population in 1914 to between 37.7% and 46.7% in 1918 (Braybon 1989, p.49).
27 maj 2019 · Women in munitions factories had their skin turn yellow from regular exposure to TNT, earning the nickname “canaries.” Hundreds of women died from overexposure to TNT and other deadly chemicals. On top of the dangerous working conditions, women were also paid significantly less than men in comparable positions.
A procession of women, led by a band, demanding the right to enter the war services in 1915. The banner reads: “The situation is serious. Women must help to save it.”
Around 400 women died from overexposure to TNT during World War One. By mid 1917, it is estimated that women produced around eighty per cent of all munitions. Another area where large numbers of women were employed was transport.
The Women’s Work Collection is a unique resource for anyone interested in the experiences and role of women during the First World War. It was accrued largely between 1917 and 1920 and originally included art, models, documents, uniforms, badges, books, photographs and memorabilia of every variety.
At the end of the civil war over 755 Red Guard women had died, 70 to 130 of them killed on the battlefield, over 20% or 400 to 500 members would be executed by the anti-communist White Guard victors and 80 to 110 died in prison camps with 150 to 200 members AWOL. [69]
