1. GENDER VIOLENCE
DURING WORLD WAR 1
Sexual and Labor violence

2. Sexual violence
• Women raped by combatants.
• Girls and women were forced into prostitution
or sexual slavery.

3. Dangerous jobs
• Munitions work: Long hours, dangerous, unpleasant
but well paid.

5. Men’s job
• Some women worked in forges, making chains (a miserable
and heavy work).

6. Used in propaganda and nursery

9. Sources
http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/12-things-you-didnt-know-about-women-in-the-first-world-war
http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/womenww1_one.htm
Wikipedia
http://www.striking-women.org/module/women-and-work/world-war-i-1914-1918