Explain the role women played at home during world war ii (including the name of the person who became the symbol of such women), and the two major roles women played overseas in the military during world war ii

More than 400 women disguised themselves as men and fought in the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War. During the Civil War, however, American women turned their attention to the world outside the home. Thousands of women in the North and South joined volunteer brigades and signed up to work as nurses.