In World War Two, Australian women had similar roles. In most of the Second World War, nurses were the only females to serve outside of Australia in any capacity. These organisations included the Australian Army Medical Women's Service the Australian Army Nursing Service, and Voluntary Aid Detachments of the Red Cross.
5,000 Australian nurses served in a range of locations, including hospitals, troops ships, camps and temporary hospitals and on aeroplanes. They served in Mediterranean, The Middle East, Britain, Asia, the Pacific, and Australia.

While nurses were kept away from the home front as much as possible , they were also caught up in the evacuation of Singapore ,and many died when the Japanese army force attacked the hospital ships. A nurse was killed in the first Japanese attack on Darwin. Some Nurses served on the front line but they mainly stayed behind. …show more content…
During World War II, some women serving as Australia army nursing service nurses, including Vivian Bullwinkle, were taken prisoner of war by the Japanese forces .
Women had long been seen as stay at home mothers before World War Two , but in world war two countless number of women performed vital roles on the home front ,supporting in the war effort while also changing traditional sterotype of what women is capable of .Propaganda a the time stressed that for the first time women was asked to do a man job, either in the industry or services. There was more women that joined the workforces than it had been before , and many women did jobs that has usually been only available to men .The women achieved all or nearly all the men rate for these jobs for men