According to interviews with female workers of the time, recorded in "Remembrance, Retrospection, and the Women's Land Army in World War I Britain" by White, the "voluntary withdrawal male domestic labor… [brought] women to British farms” (White 165). The effects of the devastating war crippled the British workforce as many men had to leave their jobs to serve in the army, and due to labor shortages, Britain had resorting to the recruitment of women to fill these vacant positions. King reflects this point in his novel through the character of Mary Russell, who is a woman who also works to earn an income during World War I. This act necessarily increased the role of women in society, because people valued women very much. even more so after they became the backbone of the production of almost all British products. In earlier years and throughout history, women were generally seen as naturally inferior to men, and society expected women to resort to working at home and