The Effect of the War on Women

Surprisingly, the most important thing the women did was not working but actually volunteering at organizations set up by women that made bags and clothes and other things for the men at war. When the war started, women all across the country came together and founded organizations for woman to volunteer at. This eventually proved that women were useful for more than just cooking, cleaning, and taking care of children. This eventually lead the prime minister at the time, William Lyon Mackenzie King, to start hiring women for jobs that people did not consider women’s jobs in 1942. This meant that they had to open nurseries to look after the children when the mothers worked. This was a good thing because it opened a lot of jobs for people in a time that a lot of people did not have one. In fact they proved themselves so well that in July of 1941 the Air Force opened their doors to women. This was not the end, as in the August of the same year the army opened their doors and the July of the next year the Navy opened theirs.