HIS 1101 Lecture 6: 6.1 - Total Mobilization Women and the Great War.docx
27 Mar 2015
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Nurses: over 2000 women enlisted as nursing sisters in the canadian expeditionary force during ww1, over 1000 were employed by the royal air force as truck drivers, supply and transport, mechanics, elizabeth de t"saecales, a canadian nurse, wrote in her diary that there were time when they had to scrape the lice of the with a sharp knife. Women"s rights in canada: before the war, the status of women was not favorable, men owned women and children, women did not have any property rights except for her own land, and once she was married, she could no longer own her own land, and she couldn"t keep the money she earned by herself, until 1891, husbands were allowed by law to beat their wives with a stick no thicker than a man"s thumb and to lock them in a room if they wished, education was not available to working class women.
