There was a lot of opposition to females being in the Home Guard and the War Office made concerted efforts to discourage/downplay their activities (as can be seen in attached pic).
Gender Politics !
While equality was probably the main reason the supporters of females having 'equal roles , responsibilities and training' in the Home Guard , one of the areas they pushed was that females should have the knowledge and skills to be able to '
defend themselves' in case of a German attack/invasion.
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Originally Posted by ARPCDHG
The only thing that bothers me is that 'ME GUARD' doesn't mean anything and just sounds a bit odd.
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While it may sound odd today could it be their way of saying that they wanted to "guard"(protect) themselves ? (Fast forward to 2017 and the 'Me Too' movement).
Just a 'theory' but as they were already wearing 'Home Guard' titles and wouldn't want to completely remove the 'Home' part then indicating that it was about themselves could make sense .
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