According to interviews with female workers of the time, recorded in White's “Remembrance, Retrospection, and the Women's Land Army in World War I Britain”, the “voluntary removal of men from the domestic workforce…[brought] women to British farms” (White 165). The effects of the devastating war crippled the British workforce due to the fact that many men had to leave their jobs to serve in the army and, due to the shortage of workers, Britain resorted to conscripting women to fill these vacant job positions. King reflects this point in his novel through the character Mary Russell, who is a woman who also works a job for an income during the time of World War I. This act of necessity increased the role of women in society, as people valued women highly. even more so after they became the backbone of the production of almost all British goods. In previous years and throughout history, women were generally believed to be naturally inferior to men, and society expected women to resort to working at home and