When the Second World War broke out in 1939 just over five million women were in work. By 1943 that number ... potential and the need for change. WW2: How did the heroes of the Caribbean help ...

Yet middle-class women felt the pressure of the culture telling them to stay home. Many also had little desire to work in the nine-to-five jobs open to them. They didn't want to be factory workers ...

Yet middle-class women felt the pressure of the culture telling them to stay home. Many also had little desire to work in the nine-to-five jobs open to them. They didn't want to be factory workers ...

Factory work also paid well and many of the early volunteers were motivated by the desire to earn money. This was especially true for women from the south Wales valleys who had shouldered the ...

An estimated 2,000 Taiwanese were forced into sexual slavery during World War II The last known ... "Comfort women" refers to those forced to work in the Japanese army's wartime brothels between ...

Cpl Lydia Alford (centre) was among the first Flying Nightingales to be flown into enemy territory to evacuate injured troops A display has opened to celebrate the work of a group of women who ...