Women In Ww1

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In WW1, women weren’t really shown that much respect and honour as much as men were. Although women have contributed a great deal of services, (munition factories, taking over men’s jobs, caring for the sick and wounded) people thought fighting physically with gun deserves honour and recognition. Women, especially those serving as nurses near the frontline, were at great danger for being so close and being a prime target. Some even losing their lives through misdirected shelling/enemy attacks, but that did not obviously qualify as ‘combatants’, just ‘casualties of war’. Those who died in factory accidents or bombings were even less honoured. And in any case, to repeat the point, even the survivors of such heinous incidents do not usually have