Question

. What were women left in charge of when their husbands went to war? ________________

Answer 1

Women worked in the shipyards in Duluth and on Lake Superior and as streetcar conductors for the Twin Cities Rapid Transit Company. They also worked on farms to replace their husbands and the hired workers who had gone to fight. Wives and daughters were often left in charge of family farms when their husbands and fathers were drafted.

Answer 2

Which war? Does it specify? Most women were left to care for the families. At other times, some women were nurses during the war