Belinda Davis : World War I changed women across globe in ways that affect us today . A woman who followed her own factory shift with dancing or a quick drink at the pub confronted public accusations of being a `` flaunting flapper '' or an `` amateur girl '' -- effectively a prostitute -- even as fellow male workers and soldiers on leave might proposition and harass her . She says they took up ` ` women 's work , '' supported the poor and raised children in privation . She says male society struggled with how to acknowledge women after war . Davis : Family tensions increased with soldiers , still women could vote in many nations .
Belinda Davis : World War I changed women across globe in ways that affect us today . She says they took up ` ` women 's work , '' supported the poor and raised children in privation . She says male society struggled with how to acknowledge women after war . Davis : Family tensions increased with soldiers , still women could vote in many nations .