Women were very important in the ways that they supported the war. It started at home by the way they prepared the meals. They ran a tight house hole in order to save what they could and spend less money. The women were being very supportive to their husbands of them being in the war. They encouraged their men not to resist the draft and go to war.
The women also went to work. They worked in factories making weapons for the war. They made medical supplies and clothing for the soldiers. Some even went off to war and worked as nurses providing the much needed care for soldiers. The war depended on women’s help, and without them they wouldn’t have been able to get much done.
The unexpectedly enthusiastic outpouring of women volunteers profoundly affected American attitudes toward the role of women. The women were obviously not helpless nor unpatriotic: they were fighting in essential ways for American values. The experience guaranteed overwhelming support for the suffrage movement.
By Anna Hernandez
United States Today 