Did World War One actually improve women's lives in Britain? At the time, many people believed that the war had helped advance women politically and economically. Thus, Mrs Millicent Fawcett ...

Women on the Home Front in World War One. By Professor Joanna Bourke Last updated 2011-03-03. World War One opened up radical new employment opportunities to women.

What did women do on the home front and for the war effort during World War One? Find out in this year 5/6 primary history guide from BBC Bitesize.

Far away from the frontline, many of World War One's victims were women. Wives, girlfriends, mothers and sisters of troops often found themselves in high risk jobs at munitions factories, which ...

Women making boots in the Royal Army Clothing Department in London. Imperial War Museum (IWM), CC BY-ND In researching my essay, A Heroine at Home: The Housewife on the First World War Home Front ...

FASCINATING pictures show women toiling in factories and workshops on the Home Front during the First World War. World War One opened a raft of career opportunities for British women while men ...

Roberta "Bobby" Hollis joins the Air Transport Auxiliary in a team of pilots known as the "glamour girls". Just as capable as the men, these women ferry aircraft, parts and people between ...

Civil War 150: Women faced struggles, fears on the homefront Savannah woman searched for her soldier husband. Chuck Mobley. As the drama of the Civil War unfolded in Savannah, ...

NORWALK — When she was young, Gretchen Caulfield’s grandmother would often regale her with stories. Many of those stories were set during World War II and included fond remembrances of her ...

Without the women on the home front, we would not be where we are today,” according to the Women Who Worked on the Home Front. Svetlana Shkolnikova . Svetlana Shkolnikova .

Several months ago, the Democrat-Herald published a story about a woman from Lebanon, Sally Craig, who was a Rosie the Riveter, one of millions of American women who worked in ...