During World War I, women took on new roles in the workplace and military due to large numbers of men being deployed to the front. Women worked in munitions factories, transportation, offices, and some served as nurses or soldiers. Their contribution of 40% of the production effort helped support the war. After the war, women argued that if they could work and fight, they deserved the right to vote as well. Some countries like Germany and England granted women suffrage in the aftermath of World War I in recognition of their expanded roles during the conflict.

1. CELIA PAÑEDA LOGEDO

2. BEFORE
Since second part of XIX
century:
• Female ideal was as the
queen of the house.
• The maternity was remarked
as her most important
function.
• However, the needs of a
bourgeois society on the way
to modernization required that
women would assume
practical and effective tasks.

3. DURING
• With so many soldiers in
the war, industry needed
workers.
• Women were the solution.
• Women know how to fulfill
their role. The woman's
previous role had become
obsolete.

4. DURING
For replacing recruited men
some women:
• Worked in munitions
factories, in public
transport, in offices and in
security
• Served in the armed forces
in support functions, for
example, as nurses
• Even in Russia some were
soldiers.

5. DURING
• During the war, female labor
accounted for 40% of the
production on which much of
the weapons industry
depended.

6. AFTER
• The war had started a
change called suffragism.
• They pointed out that if
they were equal to work
and fight, they should be
the same to vote.

7. AFTER
Women vote:
• In Germany women got the
right after the war.
• In England in 1918, women
over 30 got the right to vote,
although it wasn't until 1928
that women over 21 could do
so.

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