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World War I propaganda poster, Edward Penfield, 1918 Topics on the Page
Overview of Women and the War
The Hello Girls: Women Telephone Operators
Female Yeomen in the U.S. Navy
Munitionettes in England
Jeannette Rankin and the Women's Peace Movement
Salvation Army Doughnut Lassies
Women in the United Kingdom
African American Women in the War
Overview
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Joy Bright as a Yeoman (F) 1918 |
The Story of the Female Yeoman During the First World War, National Archives
The Navy Yeoman in World War 1
Yeoman (F) Uniform
I Was a Yeoman (F) is a first-person account of one's woman's experiences during the war
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Female munitions workers manufacturing heavy artillery shells, 1917 |
Women in the Munitions Industry
9 Women Reveal the Dangers of Working in a First World War Munitions Factory
12 Things You Didn't Know About Women in the First World War, Imperial War Museums
Jeannette Rankin, February 1939
Jeannette Rankin and the Women's Peace Movement
Why Women's Peace Activism in World War I Matters Now, The Conversation (April 2, 2017)
Nurses & Medicine
American Nurses in World War I: Underappreciated and Under Fire. PBS American Experience
Salvation Army Doughnut Lassies
Doughnut Girls: The Women Who Fried Doughnuts and Dodged Bombs on the Front Lines of World War I
Women in the United Kingdom
English women at work in the New Gun Factory in London
Click here for a link about Women's Roles in WWI
Video on women (in UK) during WWI
For an article accompanied by images and a video of Women in WWI propaganda
A website dedicated to the Role of women in World War I
Check out this video about Flora Sandes the only British female to fight on the front lines in WWI!
Mata Hari, 1915
Mata Hari was an exotic dancer and double agent working during the first world war. During World War I, Mata Hari became embroiled in a web of intrigue and espionage.
Mata Hari was put on trial for espionage and was found guilty. She was executed by a firing squad on October 15, 1917, at the age of 41.
Gertrude Bell
Gertrude Bell was a British woman involved in Arabic studies, who moved to intelligence gathering during World War I. She was an expert on the Middle East, with language skills, archaeology experience, and time spent in the region.
Click here to read about female spies and intelligence officers in WWI.
African American Women in the War
Black women contributions during WWI
Motor Corps drivers with the Red Cross and the National League for Women’s Service
Transported soldiers to military camps, hospitals, and canteens
Nurses:
The American Red Cross resisted activating the approximately 1,800 African American nurses certified for service with the military until the end of the war, when the 1918 pandemic created a nurse shortage. Even then, only 18 Black nurses served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps stateside
First Person account by Aileen Cole Stewart, one of the 18 black nurses here!
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