Essay On The Impact Of War On Australian Women

Good morning Mrs. Bayes and classmates. For women, the dangers of war go far beyond the violence of combat. Women suffer some of the greatest health and social inequities in the world. The focus question is “What was the impact of war on Australians and their identity”? The topic I am speaking about is how war had an impact on women.

Florence Avenel, was a senior and experienced nurse. In 1913, she was a District Hospital Nurse. The day after the ANZACs landed at Gallipoli, she enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service. She wrote this letter to her family. This poem is from the Australian War Memorial website and says,
Here we are mothers in the darkness petrifying like a rare specimen of other ages.
Without these words being capable

This picture shows that women in World War 1 had to push trolleys carrying clay from the mill for brick making. (Show Picture)
This second picture also represents women stepping up as a community to help as the Men’s jobs were left behind, women were capable and indeed needed to replace their spot in the work force. (Show Picture)
According to Australian war memorial website there were 3,000 Australian civilian nurses who had volunteered for active service during the First World War.
It can be found in the book “Women in World War 1”, written by Nick Hunter. Many women in 1900 lived quite restricted lives by today’s standards. After leaving school in their early teens, women would be expected to go out to work. Once married, stayed home to look after the children.

Prior to the outbreak of War in 1914 the women’s position and status was that they were to look after the duties of the family. Not only just to care for their homes but in-laws homes as well. These duties consisted of cooking for the family, cleaning, sewing, maintaining a yard, caring for the young and many more. Until they had to go to war and started doing work that men should do because the men were