The Womanpower Problem in Britain during the Second World War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8959530 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Harold L Smith (Texas A&M University-Victoria, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 925-945 |
| Publication date | 1984-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Historical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0018246x00018161 |
| OpenAlex | W2007819896 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 7 |
At the national women's conference convened by the government in September 1943 Winston Churchill assured the women delegates that the contribution to the war effort by British women had ‘definitely altered those social and sex balances which years of convention had established’. His belief that the war had brought about profound changes in the status of women was shared by contemporary authors attempting to evaluate the effect of the war on British women. Studies written near the end of the war by Margaret Goldsmith and Gertrude Williams refer to a wartime ‘revolution’ in the position of women. Both authors defined this revolution primarily in terms of the changed position of women workers
Ancient history · Convention · Economic history · Economics · First world war · Government (linguistics · Political science · Position (finance · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · World War II · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US
‘Where are your intelligent mothers to come from?’
Above and Beyond the Call
Gendered Identities in British Regions in Wartime
British Women, Disability and the Second World War
Women's Rights, Women's Obligations
Banking, bureaucracy and the career
Women and Equality
Women's pay in British industry during the Second World War
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 2020 (33) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |