General Chat

You are approaching this question from a twenty-first century position, David ..... equal rights and all that it entails.

With the exception of female householders over 30 (few), the majority of women over 21 did not get the vote until 1928 even though men over 21 were enfranchised by the Rep of the Pple Act in 1918.

Women were 'behind' in every respect then. Even in the 1960s and '70s I had to stand my ground at work for equal rights on a few occasions. Even now some men still try to dominate ..... Trump, perhaps?

It was classified as 'The Front Line' would have put them at greater risk (than males) of sexual assult if they had fallen into enemy hands. That's only been changed within the last 20 years or less.

Besides, they were considered "Little Women" who weren't capable of fighting. Some of the TV programmes interviewing survivors illustrated how surprised the receiving airfield were when they realised a female had piloted in. The ground crew etc assumed the woman was a passenger or crew and went looking for the male pilot!

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Been watching a few short videos regarding women's roles during WW11.
With the men away at war fighting on land and sea and even in the sky's the women were given a variety of work. In factories, ship yards, and many other previously men only role. I saw trained women aviators delivering Lancaster, Spitfires, etc from one air field to another.
Since they could fly why were they exempt from active service ?