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Ottoman Empire Women in World War I Revision

plus general revisions and additions for other countries with one sentence entries such as Serbia, Austria and Finland.

Women during World War I were not well represented and as such there is not much information about the daily lives of women during this pivotal era, the media and in particular film, also does not have much portrayal of women in the first world war outside of the occasional look at the stereotypical representation of a women being a nurse. As such I wish to add to the role of women so I choose to expand on the role of women during World War I mostly focusing on the Ottoman Empire but also looking at other nations with little information about the lives of 50% of its populations.


 * Added more info to the amount of work that Women did during World War I including expanding the role of women in the military and production at home within the Ottoman Empire including organizations created to give women jobs.
 * Added more information on notable women during World War I including Flora Sandes, Maria Bochkareva, and Mabel Grouitch.
 * Added the living condition of Ottoman women during World War I, did not just affect women but majority of the impact was on women due to the forced conscription of all men in the nation to fight.
 * Added information on the Finish Civil War that occurred during World War I and the women in the Red Guard.
 * Added information on Milunka Savic and added more information to the Serbia section.
 * Added segment detailing the IOEW in Ottoman empire and its effect on increasing women employment during the war and how after the war it was no longer necessary.
 * Added information about the Austria war efforts for women espousing unity and the first major women's rights organization in the country.
 * Added info on the martyrdom process and increased look at other jobs women did during World War I in Ottoman Empire as well as one specific example of women on the front line on a hospital ship.
 * Added info about the impacts this had on Ottoman women after the war and how it helped shape national women's rights movements.
 * Added info about the administrative capacities of Ottoman women during the war.
 * Added info on Viktoria Savs and her life and story as one of only two women in the Austrian front, including the fact she had to disguise as a man to fight, and her courage.
 * Added more info on the role of Serbian women in the war, including their shifted roles and the vastly more Serbian women there were then men during the war.

As I look at this I can say that women contributions to the war efforts of all the countries in World War I was greatly underrepresented in the media, as we see women provided much of the agricultural and industrial needs of many nations during the war and as such should be recognized as vital to the outcome of the war.