The Changing Roles Of Women During World War One

While some women openly adopted conventionally male occupations and had no desire to relinquish them after the fight was over, basic ideas about gender remained rather consistent throughout the war because women’s hard work and labor during the war, was doing their part and what they could to support the war effort. Countries also addressed and honored women and mothers, as the representatives of domestic as well as family life. As well males were still the symbol for nations of war and combat. During WWI there was a lot of analysis as to what the male and female roles played during WWI, besides the obvious females staying home, and the males going off to the fronts and fighting. As well the gender roles and culture of it changing after WWI,
The governments went so far as to involving women in some kind of war effort by being nurses or driving the ambulances or something of the sort just to have more people involved. Over all the war put a lot of pressure on the healthy and abled men to serve and enlist in the military and fight, and on the women by asking them to give their part by helping out in numerous ways, so over all the males and females sustained their home or native
Throughout the war men remained the symbol for nations of war and combat, women were praised as representing family and home life as mothers, and men young and old were still supposed to be supporting the war effort. Women often supported the war effort and patriotism by also putting on their uniform and going to work as nurses for example such as Vera Brittan a young woman who’s brother, fiancé, and best friend all went off to war as she stayed back and did her part and supporting the effort by being a nurse and later making the uniforms. Women also often were ambulance drivers on the fronts or very close to the fronts. With all the men gone they had to start doing the hard labor and had to start being farm workers because there was really no one else who would be able to grow and plant the food that they needed to eat in order to survive. Women during the war were able to do all kinds of things in order to do their female part and support the war effort. Many other women weren’t as loud and obvious with their way of supporting as others; there were many that were equally as important and supportive who stayed home and took care of things while their husbands, brothers, and/or sons were away. It was all a part of them doing their part in support of the war effort. There