The biggest change that the world war brought to women was the improvement of social status.
Because men have gone to the battlefield, the proportion of female workers in rear factories is increasing. In Britain, which has relatively abundant human resources, the proportion of female workers has not increased much. In Germany and France, the number of female workers is increasing.
In Germany, after the outbreak of the World War, approximately 5 million women entered the labor force, and the proportion of female workers in the labor force increased from 35% before the World War to 55% now.
In the UK, about 1.5 million women work outside the home, of which about 750,000 are women whose jobs were held by men before the outbreak of the world war.
In addition to the 750,000 female workers replacing men, there are 350,000 female workers engaged in war-related work. There are all-female units in the military, such as professional nurses in field hospitals. This profession is composed entirely of women. In field hospitals,
Male nurses who work are called "nursing workers" and they are generally responsible for physical work.
Relatively speaking, most female workers in France exist in the agricultural field, including the food industry, and there are not many women in arsenals. However, the French railway system employs a large number of female workers. Before the World War, there were 6,000 women in the French railway system.
The current number of female workers is 57,000.
Like Britain, France and Germany, in southern Africa, women's social status is also improving.
Before the outbreak of the world war, women in southern Africa had already obtained many rights, including the right to vote. Now only women in southern Africa and Switzerland have the right to vote in the world. Swiss women gained the right to vote in 1893. Now in their 20s
Years have passed, and finally women in another country have gained the right to vote.
That’s not right. Strictly speaking, southern Africa is not yet a country.
However, when it comes to women’s rights, Southern Africa has come from behind. During the World War, Southern Africa had its first female minister, and she was the Finance Minister in a very critical position. This made many European women consider Southern Africa as their first choice when immigrating.
options.
Ada has been a little depressed recently. After Southern Africa occupied Southwest Africa and Tanganyika, it began to sell the farms in Southwest Africa and Tanganyika, creating an established fact that Southwest Africa and Tanganyika were completely annexed.
Because Tanganyika has been developed by Germany for many years, the farm development is relatively mature, so the sales are very fast, and few people are interested in the land in Southwest Africa.
Southwest Africa is one of the driest regions south of the Sahara Desert, with an average annual rainfall of 270mm. There are large differences between regions, ranging from less than 50mm along the coast, to 350mm in the central region, to 700mm in the northeast.
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There are about 69 million hectares of arable land in Southwest Africa, which is about 10,000 acres when converted into acres. According to the standards of the Southern African federal government, if it is sold in units of 100 acres, about 1.7 million farms can be established.
Of course, this is an ideal situation, and there will be deviations in actual implementation. After all, some people buy hundreds or thousands of acres, and the number of farms that are finally established will definitely not be that many.
At present, less than 50 million acres of land in Southwest Africa have been sold, all of which are concentrated in the northeast, where water is relatively abundant and land development is relatively mature, or in the desolate areas of the central, southern and coastal areas. Almost no one cares about it.
In fact, it is not a desolate zone in the true sense. There is no desert in the true sense of the word in Southwest Africa. Even the so-called "desert areas" are in much better condition than deserts like the Sahara. The Gobi is a more appropriate description.
Compared with underdeveloped agriculture, Southwest Africa's greater advantage lies in the fishery and mining industries. Southwest Africa is known as the "strategic metal reserve". The reserves of uranium and diamonds rank among the top in Africa. However, development is not mature. Now
The output is relatively low.
The most promising industries in Southwest Africa are fishery and agriculture and animal husbandry. The purple lamb skin produced is world-famous, and the fishery output ranks among the top ten in the world. The main products are cod, tuna, sardines, pods, lobsters and crabs.
"Climate change is closely related to the environment. The climate in southern Southwest Africa is very similar to the climate in the southwestern Cape. We started researching the desert area in the southwestern Cape five years ago and found that the problem of land desertification is not inevitable.
Reversal, but this reversal process will be very long, requiring ten years or even decades of continuous investment, and it requires firm belief and hard work." Professor Carlos of the University of Nyasaland is an expert on climate.
We have been working hard to change the climate environment in the southwestern Cape, but now the prospects are not promising.
A democratic system like southern Africa is better for short-term investment. Once the time is extended to more than ten or decades, it is basically unnecessary to think about it.
If you think about it, you can understand that in a two-party system or a multi-party system, the term of a leader is generally only four to five years, so long-term planning of more than five years will not be carried out, otherwise it is possible to make wedding clothes for others.
It is unacceptable that after five years of hard work, the results are accepted by the next government and become the achievements of the next government.
The same goes for managing deserts. Can deserts be controlled?
able!
However, democratic governments will not invest in this area at all, nor will large companies with capital and strength. Large and powerful companies in southern Africa, such as the South African company Bechuanaland, invested in Tanganyikaniasaland.
Aren’t the farms in Rhodesia delicious? Why go all the way to Southwest Africa to develop farms?
And it may not be successful.
Now South African companies and Bechuanaland companies are purchasing large amounts of land in Portuguese West Africa and the Kingdom of Congo and the Republic of Congo, using the low-cost human resources in these areas to develop large-scale plantations. In the above-mentioned areas, many plantations belong to
Owned by the South African Company and the Bechuanaland Company, several large companies that originally occupied a monopoly in Portuguese West Africa were losing ground. They had to sell their plantations to the South African Company and the Bechuanaland Company, otherwise they would lose everything.
Portugal was actually a member of the Allied Powers. After the outbreak of the World War, Portugal symbolically sent two divisions to France to participate in the World War. These two divisions had backward equipment, low morale, and weak fighting will. They had never played any role on any battlefield.
Positive effect.
With such a performance, do you still want to keep your colonies in Africa?
Go ahead and dream!
"It doesn't matter. The federal government's Treasury will invest in land desertification control in southern Southwest Africa and the southwest Cape. Workers and immigrants will be recruited from Africans in Basutoland and Swaziland, as long as they are Africans willing to go to Southwest Africa.
, each family can receive a financial subsidy of fifty rand, and from now on there will no longer be a poll tax and a war tax." Aida was decisive in killing. After the outbreak of the world war, the financial situation of the southern African federal government was completely turned around.
The heavy debts before have turned into the rich wealth now, and many important decisions that were not on the agenda because of lack of money have begun to be implemented.
"That's great!" Professor Carlos was overjoyed. As long as the federal government is determined, even if the desert areas of Southwest Africa will not turn into oases in a short time, they will certainly not continue to deteriorate.
"Congress will not agree -" Deputy Minister of Finance Wilcox smiled bitterly. The federal government is indeed making a financial turnaround. The deserts in Southwest Africa must be managed, but when and how to start and how much money to invest are not fiscal matters.
The ministry has the final say, but the National Assembly has the final say.
This is where democracy is fucked. White people shout that the truth is always in the hands of the minority, so they use the minority to rule the majority.
But among the "minority", a "minority obeys the majority" emerges, so whose hand is the truth?
The same is true for the Southern African Parliament. The Parliament is composed of members who won elections in different states. Then these members will definitely favor the state they represent when voting. This is the so-called "responsibility to voters." In this way, will
Is there a majority of MPs who agree to invest the hard-earned taxes in South West Africa?
Even if you think about it with your toes, you know it's impossible.
"I will communicate with the Prime Minister -" Ada refused to admit defeat. It all depends on human factors. Now may be the best time for the federal government's financial situation. If we don't invest in managing the deserts in Southwest Africa now, then the deserts in Southwest Africa will never be saved.
Governance.
"The Prime Minister can't control the Parliament either -" Wilcox was also helpless. Not all MPs have the same overall view as Ada. In other words, the MPs also know that the deserts in Southwest Africa need to be managed, but they are useful.
Reasons why feet vote.
Basically, no one who can be elected as a member of Congress, regardless of whether they are members of Congress or local councillors, is a fool.
Perhaps it is precisely because these people are so smart that they are misled by their cleverness. To manage the deserts in Southwest Africa, it really takes some "fools" to complete this task.
The smile on Carlos's face froze. Although Ada was working hard to promote the governance of the desert in Southwest Africa, Carlos knew that Ada's efforts were meaningless. Just like Wilcotes said, the parliament would not agree.
The Prime Minister would not agree. Ada's efforts alone are ultimately limited.
Unless someone far away in Europe comes forward, it may be possible to get parliament to agree——
It's a pity that Rock is far away, and defeating the Allies is Rock's most important task now.
In the evening, Carlos returned to the hotel where he was staying. As a professor at the University of Nyasaland, Carlos could enjoy a high discount at the Rhodesian hotel, and the cost of staying in the hotel was fully paid by the University of Nyasaland.
to reimburse.
"Please wait a moment, Professor Carlos -" A young man in a black suit stopped Carlos in the hotel lobby.
Carlos stopped and looked a little ugly. He just wanted to go back to his room and have a good sleep to forget what happened today.
Carlos' mood today was like being on a roller coaster. The feeling of going from ecstasy to despair really made Carlos uncomfortable.
"Professor Carlos, I am Lincoln from Nyasaland Company, nice to meet you -" Carlos was surprised by the young man's name. Nowadays, few people call him this name.
Only then did Carlos notice that the young man who called himself "Lincoln" had black hair and dark eyes, and a sincere smile on his face.
: Wow hahahaha, after seeing this name, many brothers must have despaired at my ability to name - no matter it is a chapter name or a person's name, they are equally desperate -