Kate Adie...Fighting on the Home Front

Kate Adie...Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Women in World War One

Award winning journalist and best selling author, Kate Adie tells the story of the First World War
years through the eyes of women and unearths in the telling fascinating and eye-watering detail of just how hard the up-hill struggle for admission into the world of men was. There was work desperately needing to be done on the railways, in munitions, in the post office, and every other area of life now that the men had gone to war. For some it was a bitter and unusual pill to swallow but to win the war, the nation needed to turn to its women. Attitudes were slowly changed – as they had to be. Step by tiny step, women were included in all aspects of life.

The advances made in those war years were enormous. Women showed themselves and others that not only could they do the work, but they should be doing the work. No longer was it possible to keep them at home, separated and segregated, without rights. They had proved what they could do.