Women and War Work

And what is to come after? The first and the last and the greatest thing to do is to win the war and to get the right settlement. Unless we finish this struggle with the nations...

The war has done already, with us, such great things for women, so many of them so naturally accepted now, that it is almost difficult to get back in thought, and realize where...

The unprecedented state of things produced by the war brought in its train serious anxiety as to moral conditions, not only in regard to the relation between the sexes but in ot...

To win the war, we must save. There is no task more imperative, no need more urgent, and there is no greater work than the work of educating the peoples of our countries, and in...

The health of the Munition Workers' Committee was set up when the Ministry was established with the concurrence of the Home Secretary, "To consider and advise on questions of in...

When war broke out the Government had three National workshops producing munitions--today it has 100, and it controls over 5,000 establishments through the Ministry of Munitions...

The production of food has been affected by the raising of great armies--more than twenty million men are in arms in Europe--by the feeding of armies, for which we must, of nece...

When war broke out on August 4, 1914, probably the only women in our country who knew exactly how they could help, and would be used in the war, were our nurses in the Navy and...

The deeds of the Anzacs in Gallipoli and France are immortalised in many records--magnificently in John Masefield's "Gallipoli"--an epic in its simplicity. The work of the Waacs...

The full records of this are not easy to give--so much has been done. Perhaps the simplest way is to begin with the soldier at the training camp and follow him through his soldi...

Nobody knew--not even the ablest financial and commercial men--just what a great European war was going to mean, and luxury trades ceased to get orders; women journalists, women...

The spirit of women in this greatest of world struggles cannot, in its essence, be differentiated from the spirit of men. They are one. The women of our countries in the mass fe...

There are people who declare that the winning of this war depends on organization alone. That is palpably untrue. Good organization can do much. The greatest thing in all organi...

The Land Army of Women, which now numbers over 258,300 whole and part-time workers, has done splendid work. For some years before the war women had been very little used on the...