In this most recent period, we see the fruits of the work done by pioneering women. Many women went to war albeit in a supporting role to men. (ie. “We Serve that men may fly’ or “We Serve that men may fight” etc.). In unprecedented numbers, women worked away from home to fill the jobs vacated by soldiers. After the war ended, many of these women went back to their homes – but temporarily. On the surface, the “Distribution of Employment” table of 1971 shows that the leading employments for women were clerical, teaching and nursing. Almost 50% of women who worked, did so in one of these three occupations, nearly identical to sixty years earlier. What had changed were the number of women in the workforce and their percentage of the workforce. i.e. 71,950 women made up 32% of the New Brunswick work force in 1971 compared to 16,491 women constituting 15% of the workforce in 1911. In particular the number of married women, rose significantly. Single and widowed women had always worked but it became more and more the norm for married women to stay in or re-enter the work force. In the 1885-1914 era, women broke down the barriers to professions such as medicine and the law, but few actually joined these ranks. A few women were in non-traditional fields then but their presence there was the exception not the norm. It is only in last quarter of the 20th century that significant numbers of women are entering these professions. Currently female university students outnumber their male counterparts and only in the 1990’s that universities and businesses are selecting female Presidents and CEO’s. “We’ve come a long way…”