Now that the war is over it is easy to look back on the role that both the men and women played. I sometimes have to ask: what was easier, the men shooting on the front lines or the women that stayed home and multi-tasked to keep a country together. I think in retrospect it would be unfair to try and say that one was more important then the other. The only thing that satisfies me is to know that without Canada?s women on the home front, there may have been no chance to win the war. It is obvious with all the information given that by temporarily assuming non-traditional roles in the labour force and in society, Canadian women became an important part of the war effort from 1939-1945.