Com o recrutamento em massa de homens para a Primeira Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), as mulheres começaram a ganhar espaço na esfera pública em funções que iam além do serviço doméstico e de creche. Elas assumiram funções importantes em diversos segmentos, entre eles fundição de tijolos, geração de energia, construção de navios, sinalização de trens, fundição de ferro, escavação e até construção de casa.

O Imperial War Museum, em Londres, ao lado de outras entidades (como a Wikimedia), tem documentado em seu acervo uma grande coleção de fotografias que mostra como o trabalho transformou a vida das mulheres durante o período da Primeira Guerra Mundial.

A seguir, você confere essas imagens incríveis e inspiradoras. (Todas as fotos são de domínio público.)

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Fonte: The Public Domain Review

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ARMS PRODUCTION IN BRITAIN DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR (Q 30137) A female worker lies inside the barrel of a naval gun to clean the rifling at the Ordnance Works Coventry. Her head is just visible at the muzzle end of the gun. September 1917. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205193209

BRITISH HOME FRONT 1914-1918 (Q 103278) Women munitions workers making shell bags in a factory in Scarborough during the First World War. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205346320

BRITISH HOME FRONT 1914-1918 (Q 103279) Women munitions workers making shell bags in a factory in Scarborough during the First World War. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205346321

BRITISH HOME FRONT 1914-1918 (Q 103280) Women munitions workers making shell bags in a factory in Scarborough during the First World War. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205346322

BRITISH HOME FRONT 1914-1918 (Q 103281) Women munitions workers making shell bags in a factory in Scarborough during the First World War. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205346323

BRITISH HOME FRONT 1914-1918 (Q 103282) Women munitions workers making shell bags in a factory in Scarborough during the First World War. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205346324

BRITISH HOME FRONT 1914-1918 (Q 103283) Women munitions workers making shell bags in a factory in Scarborough during the First World War. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205346325

BRITISH HOME FRONT 1914-1918 (Q 103284) Women munitions workers making shell bags in a factory in Scarborough during the First World War. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205346326

BRITISH HOME FRONT 1914-1918 (Q 103285) Women munitions workers making shell bags in a factory in Scarborough during the First World War. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205346327

BRITISH HOME FRONT 1914-1918 (Q 103287) Group of women munitions workers who worked at a factory in Scarborough making bags for artillery shells during the First World War. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205346329

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