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  2. Women in World War II - Wikipedia

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    Women in World War II. In many nations women were encouraged to join female branches of the armed forces or participate in industrial or farm work. Women took on many different roles during World War II, including as combatants and workers on the home front. [1] The war involved global conflict on an unprecedented scale; the absolute urgency of ...

  3. American women in World War II - Wikipedia

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    During World War II, approximately 350,000 U.S. women served with the armed forces. As many as 543 died in war-related incidents, including 16 nurses who were killed from enemy fire - even though U.S. political and military leaders had decided not to use women in combat because they feared public opinion. [2]

  4. Women in Bletchley Park - Wikipedia

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    About 7,500 women worked in Bletchley Park, the central site for British cryptanalysts during World War II.Women constituted roughly 75% of the workforce there. [1] While women were overwhelmingly under-represented in high-level work such as cryptanalysis, they were employed in large numbers in other important areas, including as operators of cryptographic and communications machinery ...

  5. Rosie the Riveter - Wikipedia

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    Rosie the Riveter is an allegorical cultural icon in the United States who represents the women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies. [1][2] These women sometimes took entirely new jobs replacing the male workers who joined the military. She is widely recognized in the "We ...

  6. History of women in the United States - Wikipedia

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    During World War II, many women filled roles vacated by men fighting overseas. Beginning in the 1960s, the second-wave feminist movement changed cultural perceptions of women, although it was unsuccessful in passing the Equal Rights Amendment. In the 21st century, women have achieved greater representation in prominent roles in American life.

  7. Monument to the Women of World War II - Wikipedia

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    The Monument to the Women of World War II is a British national war memorial situated on Whitehall in London next to the Cenotaph at the end of Downing Street. The sculpture represents the wartime contributions of over seven million women, including 650,000 who joined military services. It is a 6.7-metre (22 ft) tall hollow bronze resembling a ...

  8. Soviet women in World War II - Wikipedia

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    Soviet women played an important role in World War II (whose Eastern Front was known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union). While most worked in industry, transport, agriculture and other civilian roles, working double shifts to free up enlisted men to fight and increase military production, a sizable number of women served in the army.

  9. Auxiliary Territorial Service - Wikipedia

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    However, these roles were not without risk, and there were, according to the Imperial War Museum, 717 casualties during World War II. [6] ATS women working on a Churchill tank at a Royal Army Ordnance Corps depot, 10 October 1942. Two projectionists of the Auxiliary Territorial Service operate a projector at the field stores, Aldershot, in 1941.