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Collection of videos exploring women's role in the world of work, and how women's rights were greatly changed by their roles and experiences during World War One.
Meet the women who were the “secret weapon” that won the war and changed the world in the process.
Over the course of World War II, many women stepped out of societal norms to take on roles that were essential to the Allied victory. Many took to the skies while others worked behind the scenes ...
Thirty-one other WOH medical and support staff ... Reflecting on her wartime experiences in 1937, von Sholly told a reporter that World War I had changed attitudes about women, both in medicine and in ...
A 27-year-old nurse who died at sea while trying to save wounded men during World War Two is being commemorated in a new exhibition. Sister Mollie Evershed, from Soham, Cambridgeshire, is one of ...
About 350,000 American women served in uniform during World War II.
Danish women turning 18 will be eligible to be entered into a draft lottery for military service that was previously ...
Instead of traveling to Baltimore for manufacturing jobs as they did during World War II, the women of Carroll County served their country in World War I by working closer to home.
The National World War Two Museum and the Gary Sinise Foundation celebrate the trailblazing women who worked in the American defense industry in the 1940s, and preserve their stories for future ...
“Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II,” by Lena S. Andrews. (Mariner Books) At home, women took essential, noncombat positions, freeing men to fight.
Denmark has become one of the few countries in the world to conscript women for military service, as the country seeks to ...
These 5 female spies helped win World War II Meet some of the women who risked their lives for the Allied cause—including renowned dancer Josephine Baker, who used her star power to help the ...