Women and World War 1

Created labor shortages.

1000’s of African Americans left the South for jobs in North.

Established large black communities in Northern cities.

New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago.

Labor shortages provided jobs for women

Streetcar conductors, railroad workers, shipbuilders and farming

Women volunteered for the war effort

Sold war bonds.

The Food Administration urged families to observe "meatless Mondays," and "wheatless Wednesdays.“

Many joined the Red Cross

30,000+ women were nurses and ambulance drivers.

British Nurse Edith Clavell was executed by the Germans

“Hello Girls”

Operators who translated and relayed war correspondences

Journalists-British Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant wounded by a grenade

Women mustered support for woman suffrage through WWI participation and favorable depiction in media.

The 19th Amendment ratified by the states in 1920.

Many women quickly became bored with women’s rights and political activism declined