HIST 260 Lecture Notes - Double Standard, Time In Indonesia, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
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Women enter the military, other than nursing capacities. They do not go into combat, not appropriate for women. Men who run the army are not particularly happy of them being there, the women do. Most of it was secretarial and domestic. Women are still expected to be feminine, makeup, dress ext. 1935 paris foreign correspondent for canadian press: filed stories to cp and the leader-post from france, belgium, switzerland, By 1940, national defense headquarters (ndhq) enlisted women to avoid conscription. Female labour already used in civil service. 1941, britian request women for raf or rcaf air service. In 1941 about 6700 women enrolled in unofficial self-supporting paramilitary organizations. The bombarded ndhq with request to be sent overseas. To control female organizations, the government recruited from them. Women were noncombatants as the taking of life was seen as incompatible with their role. Vast majority in low-skilled service or clerical tasks or feminine jobs such as laundry, cooking, nursing.
