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Australian Women and the Second World War


Women in the Second World War: In Their Own Words - Anzac Portal

Employers usually paid their female workers a little over half the average male wage. In 1943, 800,000 women were in the Australian workforce, the highest ...

Australian women at work in WWII: keep cool and carry on

Almost a third of women of working age would participate in paid work during WWII, many in roles unavailable to them before the war.

Australian Women and the Second World War: Great Debates

This debate resource focuses upon the effects the Second World War had upon Australian women and the roles they played.

Australian women during World War II - Wikipedia

Australian women during World War II ... Australian women during World War II played a larger role than women had during World War I. Two members ...

War: Catalyst for Change | National Library of Australia

Women made up nearly 7 per cent of the one million Australians who served in the Second World War. They performed both traditionally male technical roles such ...

Women in wartime Australia - Trove

One such woman was Ruby Payne-Scott, an Australian physicist and radio astronomer. Payne-Scott was a pioneer in radio astronomy and conducted ...

Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) - Australian War Memorial

From the outset of the Second World War, Australian women were aware of the changing role of British women in supporting Britain's war effort.

ANZAC Day: remembering when women held down the fort | WGEA

Australian women also achieved something else in World War II. They successfully debunked notions of “men's work” and “women's work”. In ...

Shining a light on the World War II records of Australian women - ABC

The National Archives of Australia has digitised over a million service records from World War II, many of which haven't been seen for 80 ...

WWII & Australia: Women & World War II - Library Guides

Aussie women in World War II: The Australian Women's Army Service | Traces Magazine ... From the outset of the Second World War, Australian women ...

Working 9 to 5 | naa.gov.au - National Archives of Australia

Women who joined the Australian Women's Army Service undertook civilian military ... The Second World War brought about drastic changes in women's ...

Women's work during World War II - Fishermans Bend

By 1947, the overall proportion of women in the workforce in Australia had returned to its 1939 rate of just over 23 per cent. After the war, ...

Australian Women's Land Army | Australian War Memorial

The Australian Women's Land Army (AWLA) was formed during the Second World War to combat rising labour shortages in the farming sector.

The Australian Land Army girls who 'quietly' fed the nation - YouTube

Australian Women in War. Australian Department of Veterans' Affairs•33K views · 6:23. Go to channel · Home Front Heroes: Women in World War II.

Category:Australian women in World War II - Wikipedia

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Class, Gender and the Australian Women's Army Service 1941 – 1947

Map of Australia 1943. During the Second World War the Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) served at military bases throughout Australia. The dotted line ...

How the Second World War changed the game for Australian women

More than 200,000 women joined the workforce during the Second World War, forever transforming the role of women in society. ... Much changed for ...

The Desire for a Yank: Sexual Relations between Australian Women ...

sexually active women.1l By World War II it was obvious to all that. "these amateurs," as the Australian Army magazine Salt explained,. "represent all classes ...

Australian Women in War - YouTube

The Second South African Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902: museum study 05:04 World War I 1914-1918: museum study 10:08 World War II 1939-1945: museum ...

World War II: 1939-1945 | Striking Women

In many ways, the story of women's employment during WWI was repeated during WWII. Women successfully undertook what had earlier been considered 'men's ...