# Social awareness

Many women became single heads of household and supported the war in unprecedented numbers, not only in Britain, but all around the world in war. They served directly on the battle front (as nurses, drivers, cooks) or on the homefront executing jobs traditionally considered for men much like the munitionettes did.

But when the War was over, men came back home and the factories switched to peacetime production, then thousands of women were dismissed from their jobs.

Although with some regressions in the aftermath of the War, the conflict has transformed women´s life in many ways.

# Image Gallery

- Munitionettes working at Preston factory
- Feetwood ladies football team
- United States recruiting poster for women to enlist in the Navy, World War I.

# Activity

Find out some of the main changes produced in society concerning gender roles because of the War (you can try here and here) and complete the next exercises:

- List the main changes in women´s lives after the First World War.
- List some issues concerning women´s situation that remained still unresolved at the time.
- Briefly explain the difficulties for men when they came back home once the War had finished to accept the changing society.

> “The fact that I am using my life’s energy to destroy human souls gets on my nerves.” She was proud that she was “doing what I can to bring this horrible affair to an end. But once the war is over, never in creation will I do the same thing again.”

> ~ Words of a woman writing for the magazine of a projectile factory.

Quoted at http://hankeringforhistory.com/munitionettes-the-great-war-the-great-change/

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