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Patricia Fara is a president of the British Society for the History of Science and explains the evolution of society’s role for women throughout time and how the Great War hugely impacted it. She explains how before the war, extremely few women studied or worked in scientific fields due to the few schools which offered it to them in the first place, as well as the conventional expectations of the girl’s parents. But when men went to battle, women were left to fill the (some scientific) positions which were now empty. Though, it is essential to point out that when women took the exact same jobs which men left, they were paid much less than men were while working the same position. She goes on to elaborate on many remarkable ladies of the time, such as Dorothea Bate, Martha Whitely, Ray Costelloe, and Helena Gleichen, who learned the works of radiography and took many X-rays of men wounded in battle at the Italian front.
Many of the women listed in the above summary were also extremely active leaders in the fight for women’s suffrage before the war, among many other civil rights for women, like that of the hundreds of years old movement which first prominently surfaced in the United States in the nineteenth century and was especially remarkable in the 60s/70s. I think that stories and studies like these are very important to not only reinforce how far women in all sorts of forces of society have come and how wonderful it is, but also that there is still a margin of the perceived capabilities of a man and a woman, whose untrue parts must still be dismissed.
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