During World War I because so many men were joining the military and going to Central Europe to fight. This caused a problem for the government who could not find replacements for the factory, office, and shopkeeper positions that these men had formerly occupied. In desperation they turned to women to fill the positions. Soon women were building tanks, plowing fields, and running hospitals. It was also the women who made sure that supplies were being manufactured and sent to the troops, such as food, clothing, and weapons. Women were the driving force that kept business moving while the male population was no longer there to do so, if not for women business could have stopped and troops would not have been properly equipted. Although most women were forced to give up their newfound jobs once the war had ended and the men had returned, there was no denying that women were more than capable of performing laborous jobs. Labels like homemaker and childbearer, were no longer the only jobs associeted with women.
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