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5 giorni fa · Known as “Lady Death,” Lyudmila Pavlichenko was a female sniper who served in the Soviet Red Army during World War II. She was one of the deadliest in history, with 309 confirmed kills. Pavlichenko enlisted in the Red Army in 1941, following the German invasion of the Soviet Union. While initially told she’d be a nurse, she was determined ...
1 giorno fa · The post Bellevue woman’s unspoken heroism during World War II may soon become a full-length film appeared first on Nebraska Examiner. LINCOLN — For years, Jean Watters kept secret her ...
2 giorni fa · This was especially critical in the armaments industry. By 1917, around 950,000 women were employed in British munitions factories alone, producing 80% of the weapons and shells used by the army. Similarly, an estimated 700,000 women worked in Germany‘s munitions factories by the end of the war. However, munitions work was notoriously dangerous.
5 giorni fa · Google Podcasts. UK politicians urgently need to learn from Scotland FiLiA is delighted to host the launch of The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht, a new collection of over 30 essays and photographs, edited by Susan Dalgety and Lucy Hunter Blackburn, being published on 30th May 2024.
3 giorni fa · Divided into eight thematic chapters, titled Dreams, Ideas, Spaces, Objects, Looks, Feelings, Actions, and Songs (the plural is important just as is the use of the plural, feminisms, is in the title), this global history examines feminisms across a broad canvas, alternating ‘between wide-angle summaries of different feminist beliefs or campaigns, and close scrutiny of the lives of individual ...
5 giorni fa · In 1914 war broke out in Europe. And with the men away fighting, many women ran their homes, cared for children and relatives, managed money, and often had a job as well. Alice. So when the war ...
3 giorni fa · Table of Statistics on Women in the World War II Era Workforce. Before World War II (1941-1945), when women worked outside the home it was usually in jobs traditionally considered to be “women’s work.”. These included teaching, domestic service, clerical work, nursing, and library science. During the war, the nation needed more airplanes ...
