How did WW1 impact Women?

Women realized they could be just as involved as men. They started to focus on suffrage because they had to do the jobs that the men had been doing for years. Though right after the war men tried to go back to the way it was the women couldn't be pushed aside as easily because they knew they could do it. World war one pushed the constraints of gender roles and though they didn't change them completely they were the biggest push towards the feminist movement.

 

Women Suffrage

Not all the women got to vote in 1918, except for the women who were wives and mothers of soldiers because of the conscription crisis. Conscription crisis meant that all the men who were able-bodied would be required to join the army and would have no choice. All in all, women have gained more respect after the war compared to women’s rights before WW1 because of their hard work during WW1. Immigrants got the right to vote in 1960 and First Nations women got the right to vote in 1967