Women and World War I

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History of a Hello Girl

Michelle Christides tells the history of the "Hello Girls," bilingual switchboard operators who served in World War I in the US Army Signal Corps.

Mobilizing Woman Power

Book by Elizabeth Cady Stanton's daughter Harriot Stanton Blatch on the role of women in World War I.

The Poster War

An online exhibit of Allied propaganda art of World War I, including some focus (not exclusive) on the portrayal of women and Canadian poster artists.

Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant

This journalist was wounded while covering the Western Front during World War I.

Thirty Thousand Women Were There

Women served in World War I, primarily as nurses and mostly in the Navy.

Unsung Women: Signal Corps Women

Women of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, three hundred strong, who served as bi-lingual operators to help with operations in France.

Edith Wharton

She visited the warfront, at the urging of the French Red Cross, and then wrote about the war.

With High Hopes: Women Contract Surgeons in World War I

Article from Minerva (Quarterly Report on Women and the Miiitary) on female doctors during World War I.

Women and the First World War

British women served in World War I in record numbers. This site details many of the individuals and organizations connected with women and the war effort.

Women's War Work

This 1916 book written by Jennie Churchill -- Lady Randolph Churchill -- details the role of women in World War I, including British, French, and American women's efforts.