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Her message to women was that in order for there to be meaningful change, women must leave the kitchen and enter the factory. This position made Margaret Hickey a prominent national figure and role model for women. [6] In August 1944 she declared that the nation's "magnificent war production" was due to the "hidden army" of women working for ...
An Army of Women is a 2024 Norwegian documentary film, directed by Julie Lunde Lillesæter. It follows a 2018 class action lawsuit filed by a group of women against police and prosecutors in Austin, Texas, for mishandling sexual assault cases. [1] The film had its world premiere at the SXSW Film and Television Festival on March 8, 2024. [2]
Voluntary Legion of Women (Polish: Ochotnicza Legia Kobiet (OLK)) was a voluntary Polish paramilitary organization, created by women in Lviv in late 1918. At that time possession of the city was contested by the Poles and Ukrainians, and women decided to assist the Polish soldiers in all possible ways, including fighting on the front line.
Traditionally an overwhelmingly male-dominated discipline, [1] women began entering the field with the turn towards the 'new military history' of the 1960s. Pioneering women military historians included Joanna Bourke and Amanda Foreman , who contributed to re-orientating military history towards a "multidisciplinary approach that embeds war in ...
Women's Army Corps, active between 1942 and 1978; Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (New Zealand) (New Zealand Women's Royal Army Corps after 1952), active between 1942 and 1977; Women's Auxiliary Corps (India), active between 1942 and 1947; Women's Emergency Signalling Corps, active between 1939 and 1954; Women's Radio Corps, active between 1918 ...
The Female Voluntary Corps for Auxiliary Services of the Republican Armed Forces (Italian: Corpo Femminile Volontario per i Servizi Ausiliari delle Forze Armate Repubblicane, better known as the Female Auxiliary Service (Italian: Servizio Ausiliario Femminile SAF ) was a women's corps of the armed forces of the Italian Social Republic, whose components, all voluntary, were commonly referred to ...
In one mid-19th-century account by an English observer, it was documented that the women who had three stripes of whitewash around each leg were honoured with marks of distinction. [13] The women's army consisted of a number of regiments: huntresses, riflewomen, reapers, archers and gunners. Each regiment had different uniforms, weapons and ...
Margaret Frances Skinnider (28 May 1892 – 10 October 1971) [1] was a revolutionary and feminist born in Coatbridge, Scotland.She fought during the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin as a sniper, among other roles, and was the only woman wounded in the action.