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ESL 185

Apr. 6, 2014

Women at war

Women play very important roles in our society today and even long before they still did play these roles. Long before civilization, it was thought that education was only for the boy child and the work of the woman was to sit down at home and serve the family by taking care of the children and cooking for the husband. These roles for women changed especially during the Second World War when most men went to the field to fight and women had to come in and fill the gaps the men left. Today women are also at war, not the war of weapons and blood but the war of life.

In the World wars women found themselves as the ones working for money to provide food for the children and husband who is a soldier. Most jobs were left open since men were fighting out there and this meant that sooner or later, if no one steps in to do the job men did before, the soldiers may run out of suppliers. This led to women being trained and working in garages as engineers and mechanics, while some worked in the food processing plants others worked in the weapons factories that manufactured bombs and bullets. Furthermore, other drove tankers and vehicles that brought supplies to the soldiers (Reese).

As if this was not enough, women still acquired a new role because the soldiers were getting exhausted day by day during the world war and they needed to rest. This led to women being trained as soldiers to replace men so that they can rest for a while as the women fight in the war. This was made possible by establishing a number of bodies like the Auxiliary Territorial service and the Women Royal Naval Services that trained women for military work so that they can free men to have some rest during the war. Britain was the first country to employ women soldiers in their armies and they required to be single and of ages 18-26 years. Later this age was adjusted to 21 years and those who had children below the age of 14 years were allowed to take care of their children (Reese).

Women today are still at war and the war doesn’t have to be the physical war like in the Second World War. Women are at war because they are fighting to be recognized and be respected in the society as people who play very important roles in building the nation. These roles that house wives play every day in the house may seem very small and most people neglect them and only notice when they are poorly done. Women need to be compensated for the work they do at home because they participate in building the economy in this way; they take care of children when they are young and make sure they go to school and are disciplined so that they can be responsible people in the future moreover, they make sure the husband is comfortable who probably works for the government. This shows that women participate indirectly in building the economy.

Today also women fight for the rights of the girl child whom for a long time has been discriminated against and education seen as something that is not necessary in her life. Those who manage to get education find it difficult to get a job because most employers prefer male workers to women workers. In our parliaments and government structures, men dominated these positions and women are at the fore-front fighting for equal rights as men and equal representation in the law making houses.

Women will always be at war as long as their important roles have been recognized, it is worth saying that most developed countries are headed there and women are not discriminated against as it used to be long before. Women should be respected because without them, men cannot do much and the society will not grow as it is supposed to grow, that is to be a responsible and a self-sustaining society.

Works Cited

Women at war: Role of women in the Second World War. Retrieved from,

http://caber.open.ac.uk/schools/stanway/workrole.html on April 2, 2014.

Moritz Ray, and Mercedes Megan. Improper Bostonian: Emily Greene Balch, Nobel Peace laureate. Boston: Taylor & Francis 1946. Print.

Reese, Rico. The Soviet military experience: a history of the Soviet Army, 1917–1991. Routledge Publishers. p. 17. ISBN 0-415-21719-9.