The entry of the United States into the fighting in Europe momentarily slowed the longstanding national campaign to win women's right to vote. ... Their activities in support of the war helped convince many Americans, including President Woodrow Wilson, that all of the country's female citizens deserved the right to vote. Employment. According to Lesley Hall, an historian and research fellow at the Wellcome Library, “the biggest changes brought by the war were women moving into work, taking up jobs that men had left because they had been called up.” Between 1914 and 1918, an estimated two million women replaced men in employment.
During World War 1 women began to work in an attempt to support the war during the absence of capable men in the workforce. After the war was over, the stigmatism of working women still existed however women began to start fighting harder for equal rights. This resulted in the 19th amendment being ratified in the United States, paving way for woman to be thought of as equals. Today this stigmatism is all but gone.
