WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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Women were paid the same wage as men.
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Women held positions in munitions factories.
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There were more than a million women in the work force.
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There were more than a million women in the work force.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which does NOT apply to women in the work force during World War I? Women were paid the same wage as men.
Detailed explanation-2: -With millions of men away from home, women filled manufacturing and agricultural positions on the home front. Others provided support on the front lines as nurses, doctors, ambulance drivers, translators and, in rare cases, on the battlefield.
Detailed explanation-3: -They also drove trucks, repaired airplanes, worked as laboratory technicians, rigged parachutes, served as radio operators, analyzed photographs, flew military aircraft across the country, test-flew newly repaired planes, and even trained anti-aircraft artillery gunners by acting as flying targets.
Detailed explanation-4: -More than six million women took wartime jobs in factories, three million volunteered with the Red Cross, and over 200, 000 served in the military.