No job for a womanThe effects of war on women's lives during the 20th and 21st centuries

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No Job for a Woman classroom activities to download as pdf files

A woman's place is in the home

Women's work: war work

That's no job for a woman: the services

War babes: stereotypes, pin-ups and prejudice

You have no right: protest and equality

Other resources

Services List - List of Main Services Military and Non-Military

IWM Department of Printed Books Reading Lists

British War Brides - Second World War
British women, 1939-1945
Women and the Holocaust
Women's Land Army
Changi Civilian Internment Camp, Singapore
Women in the Spanish Civil War
Royal Navy Medicine (includes books on naval nurses)
Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps in the First World War
British Voluntary Aid Detachments in the First World War
British Voluntary Aid Detachments in the Second World War

Information sheets:

The Women's Royal Naval Service in the First World War
Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps in the First World War
Voluntary Aid Detachments in the First World War
The Auxiliary Territorial Service in the Second World War

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