World+War+1+Amanda

Alrighty, so WWI was the first war in which woman actually served in the military; but only as clerical workers for the Navy, (since back in 1917, the Army wouldn't enlist women, only the Navy would.) If woman did join the Army, it was only temporary. They only started recruiting woman, when they ran out of people to fill in clerical positions since they were recruiting men to serve on the frontlines of war. Woman never actually never saw battle, they would however (sometimes) work in a corps thing called; Army Nursing Corps. By the time the early 1900's were rolling along, 11,000 woman had served in either the Navy or the Army, and 20,000 woman had served as Army nurses in the Army Nurses Corps. The Army nurses were the only ones who were sent overseas to help (and 10,000 woman had served overseas during the war.) Although women weren't technically enlisted in the Army, they also worked as; radio operators, electricians, pharmacists, chemists and photographers. Women also helped the soldiers by giving them hope that they would survive the war through music; singing and dancing for the soldiers. Women got paid either little, or half of what the men were being paid for their part in the war.

World War 1 and Women involved 