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During WWI there was a great impact on the role of women in Canadian Society. Women did many types of different jobs. Some worked on farms, as nurses, ambulance drivers, aircraft workers, at the front, in munition factories and for the red cross. While working these jobs the women encountered many problems. There was no heating in the buildings where they worked. The buildings were homes to mice and rats, and they only got paid $8 or $9 a week.
Another problem the women encountered were the men. Some men would take advantage of the women by grabbing them as they walked past. Other men resented the women as they excelled at war work and took on supervisory roles. All in all many women were given a hard time.
One of the biggest changes in the lives of women during the war was that many of them finally had the right to vote. It was hard for women to go back to their earlier conditions before the war because so much had changed.
During WWI there was a great impact on the role of women i...

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