Comments by "marie parker" (@marieparker3822) on "" video.

  1. I think you are correct about the 'multiculturalism', Simon, but please remember the contribution to the war effort by women in both the First and the Second World Wars. In this First World War wimen worked in munitions factories - very dangerous in thise days and there were a lot of fatal accidents. Also, at that time, women started to do work to replace the men at the Front - as drivers, on the land, or as policewowimen, and in Britain the women's branches of the armed forces - the WAAF, for example - began. In the Second World War, everyone iver the age of 18 was conscripted, including the then Princess Elizabeth, who became a driver in the Army (although she was not posted abroad) and is a trained mechanic. Women were posted to the north of Scotland to cut down trees - they were called Lumber Jills. Women - again - worked in munitions factories, were Land Girls - farm machinery not quite so advanced 80 years ago - yes, there were tractors, but nothing like today's combined harvesters - most of the code-breakers in Bletchley Park were women, some of the people parachuted into occupied France to commit sabotage and assist the Resistance were women (many did not live to tell the tale), women aviators flew all sorts of planes for delivery purposes from one part of Britain to another. Admittedly, it is only fairly recently that women in the British armed forces have been in a combat role - in the Second World War they were in back-up roles. Children were evacuated from the cities to escape the bombing, so many women were often not 'at home looking after the children'. Norse women: I'm not sure how downtrodden they were. When their menfolk were off a-viking, they probably had a farm, or at least a croft, to run as well as looking after children.
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