At the outbreak of World War One around a million workers - mostly women - flocked to jobs in munitions factories such as Nobel's TNT plant in Pembrey. The pay and hours were better than in ...

Far away from the frontline, many of World War One's victims were women. Wives, girlfriends, mothers and sisters of troops often found themselves in high risk jobs at munitions factories, which ...

Eighty years ago, what arguably was the worst war in history ended after six years of conflict, with several dozen countries ...

Even at the height of World War Two, the women who worked at New Brighton's amusement arcade turned up for their shifts as usual. Only they were no longer there to sell tickets, run the stalls, or ...

THE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION that Irish women made during World War 1 is highlighted in a new exhibition. It shows how thousands of Irish women worked in bomb making factories here in Ireland.

Bella Resnikova, then 94, is pictured in 2015. She was among 1 million women to fight in the Soviet army during World War II. (MARKUS SCHREIBER/ASSOCIATED PRESS) Liza Mundy, a fellow at New ...

Between 1940 and 1945, the proportion of women in the U.S. workforce increased from 27 per cent to nearly 37 per cent. By the end of the war, nearly one in four married women worked outside the home.

More than ever before, women played key roles in World War II. Whether they were manning the homefront, working in factories, or doing the actual fighting, there were strict rules to be followed ...

She joined the Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) in 1942, becoming one of the first women to ferry military aircraft during World War II. Wanda Gertz Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons ...

At the outbreak of World War One around a million workers - mostly women - flocked to jobs in munitions factories such as Nobel's TNT plant in Pembrey. The pay and hours were better than in ...