Essay On Women In Canada

When the men had to go leave for war, this opened up a vast majority of jobs for women to take over since the work industry could not stop without men as the economy of Canada would become terrible. Women had to do jobs that they would normally never do, like working labour jobs or in factories of different kinds. Even through all the trauma and stress women were going through, they were being very successful with having these many job opportunities. Most women had kids that they had to watch too, so they weren’t just doing one job. Also, the most favoured job that women were choosing was becoming a nurse, about 2400 women became a nurse in this time of the year. These nurses had to sometimes go into battles and help the wounded and they also helped treat
Once all the men came back from war, they took their jobs back and women had to go back to being housewifes. Since women got a taste of how it felt to have a job other than a housewife, they protested for equal job rights. The first picture shows the women working in a munition factory doing something that they wouldn’t normally do. They were sorting and creating shells of bullets. The second picture shows a couple of nurses helping a guy who has been attacked by a chemical gas, women had to risk their life to do it but in the end it was very helpful to all the men that fought. Women being employed during WW1 is significant to Canadian history since it was the beginning of women fighting for equal rights. First women were protesting to get the same jobs as them, and it just got better from there. Then they were able to vote, and soon after they were able to be a member of parliament. Without this time in history women wouldn’t have the same rights as they do now, since women had an inch of what it feels like to have a proper job, so they went for the whole