The women of Canada played a great hand in the victory of world war one, they were known for their efforts in the war and for their stepping up to replace men at home. Due to the events in the war, Canadian women are responsible for introducing the idea of gender equality in Canada since they were filling in for men’s jobs, enlisting in an all-woman nursing corps and obtaining the right to vote.
The most notable work done by the women is the work done by the nurses. It was no surprise that the nurses would work as close to the front lines as possible due to their contributions in previous wars. Over 3000 nurses served in the Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC) and approximately 2,500 of them were serving overseas. They were nicknamed …show more content…
They were filling in for any job possible, and were soon rapidly being seen working in any place a man would be working. Woman were driving automobiles, knitting materials for soldiers, running farms and mills, working in munitions factories that produced weapons and shells for the soldiers to fight with. The upper class women were seen attending art galas and charitable events for the first time ever. Canadian statistics show that other than the 35000 nurses serving in the CAMC, over 30,000 women were employed in munitions factories and about 6000 were in the civil service such as offices, banks, farms (Canadian Military Heritage Project). This was a first time occurrence in canadian history, and was also defining moment for Canada because in the future, Canada would be considered one of the most equal rights base country. This was Canada’s first step to gender equality and clearly outlines the fact that equality was being established dating as back as the 1900’s . However, there still was injustice towards women in regards to their wages, they were only paid 50% of a man salary, despite that fact the female workers still worked as hard; if not more than men. When the soldiers came back from war a few jobs were taken from woman and given back to men but since the majority of them were injured and suffered shell shock, slow progress showed that women still continued to make Canada a country with both gendered
The most notable work done by the women is the work done by the nurses. It was no surprise that the nurses would work as close to the front lines as possible due to their contributions in previous wars. Over 3000 nurses served in the Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC) and approximately 2,500 of them were serving overseas. They were nicknamed …show more content…
They were filling in for any job possible, and were soon rapidly being seen working in any place a man would be working. Woman were driving automobiles, knitting materials for soldiers, running farms and mills, working in munitions factories that produced weapons and shells for the soldiers to fight with. The upper class women were seen attending art galas and charitable events for the first time ever. Canadian statistics show that other than the 35000 nurses serving in the CAMC, over 30,000 women were employed in munitions factories and about 6000 were in the civil service such as offices, banks, farms (Canadian Military Heritage Project). This was a first time occurrence in canadian history, and was also defining moment for Canada because in the future, Canada would be considered one of the most equal rights base country. This was Canada’s first step to gender equality and clearly outlines the fact that equality was being established dating as back as the 1900’s . However, there still was injustice towards women in regards to their wages, they were only paid 50% of a man salary, despite that fact the female workers still worked as hard; if not more than men. When the soldiers came back from war a few jobs were taken from woman and given back to men but since the majority of them were injured and suffered shell shock, slow progress showed that women still continued to make Canada a country with both gendered