[www.keralites.net] Fwd: World War I Wouldn't Have Been Won Without Women's Efforts

 

Womens' Contribution to the WWII War Effort! When the First World War broke out in 1914, many men were sent into battle to halt the advances of the Central Powers. This meant that the women were sent to work in factories to support the war effort, and this was especially true in the recently industrialized United Kingdom.     Furthermore, women took over roles as transit workers, police, bank tellers, and firefighters in addition to being the presence on factory floors producing artillery shells, gas masks, tanks, ships, planes, mines, and various munitions. They were exposed to strenuous, difficult, and hazardous conditions. For instance, women in munitions factories had their skin turn yellow from regular exposure to TNT, and many, in fact, died from their exposure to this and other deadly chemicals. Sadly, British women participating in the war effort were paid less than their male counterparts in equivalent roles, and many of them were fired post-1918 when war veterans began to return home from the front lines. Take a look at these photos capturing a difficult, yet significant era for humanity:   Rubber workers in a Lancashire factory make mouthpieces for gas masks.     Lime is loaded into wheelbarrows by chemical workers.     A worker hauls ammonium nitrate cake out of a chemical plant dryer.     At work in a chemical laboratory.     Welding a frame tug for a military airplane.     Pulling skins out of a lime pit in a tannery.     Workers in a tannery.     A Royal Naval Service instructor drills gas mask-wearing recruits.     Mine net workers wire floats together.     Workers prepare for the construction of a concrete ship.     A factory producing parts for boilers and condensers.     Women hard at work crafting electrical fittings.     A 20-ton crane operator with her work machine.     Gear planers are made at a factory in Sunderland.     A worker uses a circular saw in a factory.       A worker drills holes in a piece of metal for an airship shed rib.     Workers shovel dirt in a dressing shop.     War Office vehicles get a lick of paint.     Hauling wood in a lumber yard.     Earth is hauled away prior to the installation of hydraulic pumps.     A worker inspects an electric motor.     Airplane wings are constructed and treated prior to assembly.     Artillery shells being pieced together.     Workers add a lick of paint to steel beams.     Sodium nitrate is shoveled into a skip.       Work underway in a brass fittings shop.     A crane operator with a heavy load.

 

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