Thesis statement: Canadian women had many duties during WW2 after the men had left for battle.
- Women always had a "ladylike" image that they were expected to fit.
-The involvement of Canadian women in WW2 was one of the most important primary steps towards Canadas current state of gender equality, because those women took on a untraditonal military role that back then you would NEVER expect a women to take on, challenged social stereotypes and refused to return to traditional roles after war.
-(STARTING SENTENCE) When WW2 came around it changed lives for Canadian women because they had to leave their everyday jobs to go and do the mens jobs too.
-Wmen were much more accepted in the work force. Why? Because many …show more content…
Some women also worked in the Army or some sort of work force too. Women had to provide money for their familys so they had to work double jobs while their husbands were over seas.
-Daycares were common at factories for the women's children to go to while they worked.
-Without the women on The Home Front, the Armed Forces could not have been kept supplied with aircraft, ships, weapons and supplies to fight the war.
PARAGRAPH 2: "How Canadian women changed history for women."
-Prior to WW2, women were supposed to be the "weaker" sex. This meant they were there to be pretty and to make sure the house was clean, food was cooked. This changed very quickly once WW2 begun, women proved to the men that they were capable of doing everything a man could do.
-WW2 was the breaking for women, it broke most stereotypes towards women doing "mens" jobs, or working in the war.
-The war saw extremely high female involvement in the workforce as well as the military once WW2 had begun, and a lot of women involvement AFTER WW2.
-Women did not return to their everyday jobs after they came home because they felt equal with men now so they done mens jobs