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World Service,1 min

WW1 changed the relationship between men and women in France

The War That Changed the World

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Emmanuelle Cronier, University of Picardie looks at the expectations of men returning from war. With more women entering the work place than ever before, did the war redefine what it meant to be a man as well as a woman? (Photo: An undated archive picture shows French soldiers moving a 95 mm cannon, on the rear guard near the front, at unknown location in France, 1916 World War One) (Credit: Reuters)

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