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Women in War. Women on the Home Front. Hundred of thousands of Canadian women joined the work force when the war broke out. Canadian women took on many new jobs such as building ships, aircraft, guns and tanks, driving buses and working as seamstresses (creating clothing for the soldiers).
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Women on the Home Front • Hundred of thousands of Canadian women joined the work force when the war broke out. • Canadian women took on many new jobs such as building ships, aircraft, guns and tanks, driving buses and working as seamstresses (creating clothing for the soldiers). • At the peak of the war, there were 373,000 women working in Canadian factories. • Within a few years, the number of women bringing home a pay check had doubled • Even though women did the same work, they did not receive as much money as their male counterparts
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Women on the Home Front "The war gave a lot of people jobs. It led them to expect more than they had before. People's expectations, financially, spiritually, were raised. There was such a beautiful dream. We were gonna reach the end of the rainbow... I remember a woman saying on the bus that she hoped the war didn't end until she got her refrigerator paid for. An old man hit her over the head with an umbrella. He said, 'How dare you!' (Laughs.)" – Peggy Terry, a woman who worked in a munitions factory during the war
