Excerpt from Women War Workers: Accounts Contributed by Representative Workers of the Work Done by Women in the More Important Branches of War Employment

I Feel that praise of women's work in this war would perhaps come more fittingly from one of the other sex. But no one who has been among women workers, as I have, can fail to appreciate what they have done and are now doing in the common cause.

They are not given to self-advertisement, the girl-worker in a high-explosive factory who goes home every night with clothes stained yellow has no need to tell any one what her share in the struggle is. Neither is any one who has seen a bus-conductress at the end of a day's work likely to forget that women do 'man's work.' I have talked to practically a whole street of women, widowed or bereaved by a naval engagement, and met with nothing but high courage, and of all parts played by women in this war surely none is harder than this.

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