Right To Serve Campaign
Historical Background: * The war brought all economic opportunities 1. Guys have gone off to the war so women get jobs to support their families * Nurses in the army * air raid signaling (warning others of suspected attacks) * auxiliary work with armed forces (relaying messages) * munitions factories (stuffed bombs and worked with ammunition) * This is quite surprising because munitions work was dangerous and very unhealthy. * Uplifted their social status * Women fought with the men on the fronts (if they received training) * The right to vote (1926 post war)
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* 49 years later 27th amendment was born (women have equal right to men and suffer equal consequences) ERA Equal rights amendment * note that women rights weren’t really given weight until civil rights movements As far as objectives go, the ultimate objective of the women in that time period was to establish themselves as useful and as determined as their male counterparts.
They did that by getting involved in the war, breaking social norms, and going farther than women had before. 80,000 volunteered as nursing assistants in the Voluntary Aid Detachments, VAD. Women in the VAD had only basic first aid training and were not paid, so they tended to come from wealthy families. Women worked beside the husbands for the first time in history The Right to Serve procession made the government change their minds about women working as this was the only way to keep up production, whilst The Sexual Qualification Act actually allowed women to work in the same jobs as men. In 1919 Oxford allowed women to study degrees for the first time. Women could stand for election into Parliament and Lady Astor was the first women to be elected into a seat in 1919. Women were able to vote at the age of 30 in 1918. These women socialized with men on equal terms, smoked in public and drank in pubs. They also went out with men without a chaperone to watch them. This is because the government used women during the war and found out that they were reliable and
capable.
The women were shaved bald, given slightly modified men’s uniforms, ate at the mess of the Marine Guards and were issued cavalry carbine variants of the Mosin rifle (although often photographed with the longer M.91 rifle). Sworn to never surrender (hence the term "Legion of Death”
It was published in the press that each woman soldier carried a ration of potassium cyanide to be used to commit suicide in the event of capture.
Those women were nationalists, wanted to be involved with saving their country; volunteered to work in the war,
*WW1 helped to pave the way for the rights women have today. If it wasn’t for the bold actions and determination, the course and rate at which women gained rights and justice may have been skewed. Pivotal steps were taken and propelled to where we are today.
* 49 years later 27th amendment was born (women have equal right to men and suffer equal consequences) ERA Equal rights amendment * note that women rights weren’t really given weight until civil rights movements As far as objectives go, the ultimate objective of the women in that time period was to establish themselves as useful and as determined as their male counterparts.
They did that by getting involved in the war, breaking social norms, and going farther than women had before. 80,000 volunteered as nursing assistants in the Voluntary Aid Detachments, VAD. Women in the VAD had only basic first aid training and were not paid, so they tended to come from wealthy families. Women worked beside the husbands for the first time in history The Right to Serve procession made the government change their minds about women working as this was the only way to keep up production, whilst The Sexual Qualification Act actually allowed women to work in the same jobs as men. In 1919 Oxford allowed women to study degrees for the first time. Women could stand for election into Parliament and Lady Astor was the first women to be elected into a seat in 1919. Women were able to vote at the age of 30 in 1918. These women socialized with men on equal terms, smoked in public and drank in pubs. They also went out with men without a chaperone to watch them. This is because the government used women during the war and found out that they were reliable and
capable.
The women were shaved bald, given slightly modified men’s uniforms, ate at the mess of the Marine Guards and were issued cavalry carbine variants of the Mosin rifle (although often photographed with the longer M.91 rifle). Sworn to never surrender (hence the term "Legion of Death”
It was published in the press that each woman soldier carried a ration of potassium cyanide to be used to commit suicide in the event of capture.
Those women were nationalists, wanted to be involved with saving their country; volunteered to work in the war,
*WW1 helped to pave the way for the rights women have today. If it wasn’t for the bold actions and determination, the course and rate at which women gained rights and justice may have been skewed. Pivotal steps were taken and propelled to where we are today.