For every fighter a woman worker - Y.W.C.A.

Depicts a Young Women's Christian Association poster with an army of women in uniform marching off to their war work. Their uniforms indicate their adoption of male-orientated jobs and trades. The clearly defined faces and uniforms of the women in the foreground blurs as the crowd masses into the distance to indicate the enormous commitment of women to this worthy cause. The message points to the equal dedication of women to every man who enlisted to fight for the liberty of their country.

In 1898, the first YWCA conference was held in London, a pivotal event in the evolution of the organisation, which laid the foundations for the principles of unity upon which the YWCA is based today - service and faith. In attendance were 326 participants from seventeen countries from around the world. In the beginning of the twentieth century, global industrialisation incited a conservatism within the YWCA that sought to insulate women morally and socially from urban life. Thousands of working women in the United States rebelled against this during the 1910 World YWCA conference in Berlin and these traditionalist objectives began to change. The education of working women began to take on the social conscience that it maintains today.