Impact of War: Women and Military Experiences

Abstract

"Woman’s place is in the home. All men will swear to that: She ought to stick around the house, or anyway, the flat. But now the country’s gone to war, and there’s so much to do. She’s buckled in with all her might to help the country through. And when you see the courage that is shining in her face. Perhaps you’ll own it’s just as well she doesn’t know her place."
—Verse appearing in the Pittsburgh Daily Post, July 17, 1918, concerning women’s activities on the home front during World War I.

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