Women were a positive contribution for the Great Wars. They managed to fill the void that the lack of men influenced, while maintaining with their responsibilities at home.
During the Great Depression, the Government's interference averted discrimination against women, and had mainly provided jobs for the men. Jobs differentiated by genders, men worked in manufacturing and better jobs like teaching, civil service and top positions in factories. While women worked as maids in other people’s homes, lower positions in factories and shops. When the war began, and men were starting to be drafted, there was a shortage of labor. Not only was there a shortage for general labor jobs, but the war caused a demand for labor to build war machines and other necessary war supplies. Therefore gender no longer differentiated jobs
During the Great Depression, the Government's interference averted discrimination against women, and had mainly provided jobs for the men. Jobs differentiated by genders, men worked in manufacturing and better jobs like teaching, civil service and top positions in factories. While women worked as maids in other people’s homes, lower positions in factories and shops. When the war began, and men were starting to be drafted, there was a shortage of labor. Not only was there a shortage for general labor jobs, but the war caused a demand for labor to build war machines and other necessary war supplies. Therefore gender no longer differentiated jobs
women were busy being involved with work such as volunteering to serve with the red cross, to knitting socks for the soldiers and everything in between. Even though the Great war did not necessarily provide opportunities for women, on the home front they felt the pressure to fill in the gaps that the lack of men provided.
, Canadian home fronts relied on the women to upkeep with farm work, canneries and as time progressed, clerical work. Employment was also frequently found at factories due to the great demand for creation of military supplies. Historians believed that women worked as hard, if not harder than the men; a woman's work week consisted of twelve hour days, six days a week doing monotonous work. Due to these long work days filled with labor, many women were given the choice to sleep in either barracks or tents at the farms or factories in which they were employed.
Life prior to the war was forgotten and never to recur, as it had provided women with so many opportunities and had blossomed them into contributing citizens. Although after the war was over, most women temporarily left their workplace to get married and begin families, the number of women in the workfield has yet to decrease.