Question

25. Explain the treatment of women while they worked during the war:

Weren't women and minorities were treated equally and women won the rights to vote?

Answer 1

Women's work in WW1
During WWI (1914-1918), large numbers of women were recruited into jobs vacated by men who had gone to fight in the war. New jobs were also created as part of the war effort, for example in munitions factories.

Women in the war
Approximately 350,000 American women joined the military during World War II. They worked as nurses, drove trucks, repaired airplanes, and performed clerical work.