Women in the World Wars
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In Great Britain just before World War I there were 24 million adult women and 1.7 million worked in domestic service, 200,000 worked in the textile manufacturing industry, 600,000 worked in the clothing trades, 500,000 worked in commerce, and 260,000 worked in local and national government, including teaching.
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See also
- Rosie the Riveter
- Air Transport Auxiliary (UK)
- Australian Women's Army Service (World War II)
- Australian Women's Land Army
- Canadian Women's Army Corps – known as "CWACs"
- Dorothy Lawrence – British reporter who posed as a man in the First World War
- Female guards in Nazi concentration camps
- First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (UK) – known as "FANYs"
- Himeyuri Students
- Women in the military#History+History of women in the military
- List of uprisings led by women
- Ochotnicza Legia Kobiet (Poland, 1918), and the later Przysposobienie Wojskowe Kobiet (1920s-1930s)
- Soviet women in World War II
- SPARS (U.S. Navy)
- White feather
- Wojskowa Służba Kobiet of the Polish resistance, the Home Army
- Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (USA) – known as "WAVES"
- Women Airforce Service Pilots (USA) – known as "WASPs"
- Women in the Russian and Soviet military
- Women's Army Corps (USA) – known as "WACs"
- Women's Auxiliary Air Force (UK)
- Women's Auxiliary Service (Poland) – its members known as "Pestki" (after PSK, Pomocnicza Służba Kobiet)
- Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service (UK) (in which Princess Elizabeth, now Queen Elizabeth II, was enlisted)
- Women's Land Army (UK) – known as "Land girls"
- Woman's Land Army of America
- Women's Royal Army Corps (UK)
- Women's Royal Australian Naval Service (Australia) – known as "WRANS"
- Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service (Canada) – also known as "Wrens"
- Women's Royal Naval Service (UK) – known as "Wrens"
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