• history, women have assumed diverse roles during periods of war, contributing to war efforts in various capacities. In more ancient times, women often accompanied...
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    Women in the Vietnam War were active in a large variety of roles, making significant impacts on the War and with the War having significant impacts on...
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    Women in World War I were mobilized in unprecedented numbers on all sides. The vast majority of these women were drafted into the civilian work force...
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    Women took on many different roles during World War II, including as combatants and workers on the home front. The war involved global conflict on an unprecedented...
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  • Women in War is a 1940 American war film about the nurses of the British Voluntary Aid Detachment during the Battle of France. Directed by John H. Auer...
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  • In actuality, the emergence of the Aba Women's War was long in the making. Colonial rule in Nigeria altered the position of various Nigerian women in...
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    reported on the war in 1868, it considered Paraguayan women equal to their male counterparts. Paraguayan women's support of the war effort can be divided...
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    During both world wars, women were required to undertake new roles in their respective national war efforts. Women across the world experienced severe...
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    occupied countries and territories before and during World War II. The term comfort women is a translation of the Japanese ianfu (慰安婦), a euphemism that...
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  • Women in the Israel–Hamas war refers to the experience of Israeli and Palestinian women as victims of violence, combatants, leadership partners, and as...
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    Women fulfilled a number of different functions during the Algerian War (1954–1962). The majority of Muslim women who became active participants did so...
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  • "War on women" is a slogan in United States politics used to describe certain Republican Party policies and legislation as a wide-scale effort to restrict...
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    Ancient Greek myths of the Amazons. In Ancient Greece, several women were said to have participated in the Trojan War, including Epipole of Carystus and...
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    During the First World War, the main purpose of British propaganda was to encourage men to join the army, and women to work in the country's industry...
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  • Since the beginning of the Mexican Drug War in 2006, many women, of Mexican and other nationalities, have been victims of extortion, rape, torture, and...
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    nations in World War II enlisted women. The majority served in nursing and clerical or support roles. Over 500,000 women had combat roles in anti-aircraft...
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  • Women were active in a number of roles during the Gulf War. The Gulf War marked the first conflict in which women officially took on combat roles in the...
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  • Women in the war in Donbas have taken on many different roles, both in the military and as civilians. The war has seen a significant increase in the number...
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    women is rooted in the days of the Yishuv, when Jewish women served in the ranks of various Zionist paramilitaries during the 1947–1949 Palestine War...
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    women played an important role in World War II (whose Eastern Front was known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union). While most worked in industry...
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    War brides are women who married military personnel from other countries in times of war or during military occupations, a practice that occurred in great...
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    perpetrated against women, men, girls or boys that is directly or indirectly linked to a conflict. Prosecution of rapists in war crime tribunals was rare...
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    marines. In his controversial study The Perfect War: The War We Couldn't Lose and How We did, James William Gibson contends that raping women was a means...
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    In the Indian Armed Forces women are allowed to join mainly in combat service support branches and in non combatant roles. The Indian Air Force had 13...
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    war dead women and children – UN". BBC. Retrieved 10 November 2024. Saric, Ivana (8 November 2024). "Nearly 70% of verified deaths in Gaza are women and...
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    World War I marked the first war in which American women were allowed to enlist in the armed forces. While thousands of women did join branches of the...
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  • Canadian women in the world wars became indispensable because the world wars were total wars that required the maximum effort of the civilian population...
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  • The Women's War may refer to: The Women's War (film) (German: Der Weiberkrieg), a 1928 German silent film directed by Franz Seitz The Women's War (novel)...
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  • Women at War (French: Les Combattantes) is an eight-episode Franco-Belgian historical miniseries created by Cécile Lorne and Camille Treiner and directed...
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    The Women of Troy, or as its transliterated Greek title Troades, The Trojan Women presents commentary on the costs of war through the lens of women and...
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