Was it a good thing to make women work?

[zerzis]

Although they did their work bravely, I always see a women as the person to take care and develop the baby to a perfect man. Do you think it was fair to make women work, that too in these inhuman conditions?

[Dave]

Originally Posted by zerzis

Do you think it was fair to make women work, that too in these inhuman conditions?

LOL that is hilarious mate. I think the problem would have been stopping them from working. Total war. Needs must.

BTW welcome to the forums !

[Ricardo]

I'd say that even women who weren't involved near the battles played an essential part in the war effort, in factories back home, etc.

[katharina]

Originally Posted by zerzis

Although they did their work bravely, I always see a women as the person to take care and develop the baby to a perfect man. Do you think it was fair to make women work, that too in these inhuman conditions?

Say what?! This kind of mindset was buried (appropriately!) decades ago. No one "made" those wonderful brave women work toward the war effort in ANY of the wars we have been involved in. I am shocked that there's still a person left (I assume you're a man?) who would say something like this in 2008 (or within the last 30 years!)

When women have had duties in wartime, they have always chosen those duties and have done them with great honor.

[brandon05]

I totally agree that this way of thinking to me personally is archaic to say the least. I think that what the women contribute to any war effort is needed whether it be at home, in the factories or in the battles themselves.

[Reid1986]

Yeah I was a bit shocked by the misogyny of the first post to be honest. I think it was more than fair to expect women to work and contribute toward the war effort and aside from the immediate benefits of this toward manufacturing supplies, etc. the necessity of women in the workplace during WWI and WWII was actually enormously significant toward creating modern trends of equal opportunity and female rights within society. I don't think it was a bad thing in any possible sense and if anything women beginning to work can be seen as one of the few positive results of global war.

[Ricardo]

Aside from their contributions in the factories, women were definitely in harm's way as well.

In the last couple weeks I watched a WW I video that mentioned many nurses perishing when a Red Cross ship was torpedoed, clearly in violation of the rules of war.

[Stalin]

I think the Women of WWII deserve to be mentioned, they certainly did their part in winning the war.

[brandon05]

You're very right that women were also in harms way. I also believe that the ones that stayed home and just took care of the family while their husbands were at war contributed in their own right. I am sure it gave the men piece of mind to know that their family was being taken care of while they were fighting.

[eireann]

Does 'work' also include hospital work? Because I'm thinking we probably couldn't have done anything without the women volunteering as nurses in the Red Cross and local hospitals to take care of the wounded soldiers. And keep in mind that it was "volunteer" work. It would have been more unfair to keep them from doing what they desired.