To be honest, John was disappointed with what he saw in the Army Women's Auxiliary Services Corps and the Business and Professional Women's Union. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info don't look at it, the British call the door is very high, and there is a posture of "women can hold up half the sky", but the actual situation is not like that at all.

Although the British navy, land and air force all have special departments for female members, the "discrimination" against women in the army is still quite obvious. At least, as John understood, women were strictly limited to auxiliary service positions regardless of the branch of the military.

Even the famous female aviators, the Rafthouse sisters, did not get the opportunity to go to war after joining the Royal Air Force. While the male "rookies" who had only a few dozen hours of Spitfire flying experience were fighting the Germans in the sky, the sisters, who had thousands of hours of flying experience and flew over the Atlantic, spent their days flying repaired planes back to the Royal Air Force base from repair shops all over the UK.

John is not unaware that the original intention of these restrictions was to protect women, but it was also a bit too dogmatic. In his opinion, it should be ability, not gender, that determines a person's job position. Some women can be great fighter pilots, and it's too condescending to do some auxiliary work behind the lines.

If the Royal Air Force were able to put aside some of its prejudices, perhaps there would be a few legendary female pilots like the "White Rose of Stalingrad" (Lilia Litvak, a female fighter pilot during the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, who shot down 12 enemy planes).

Of course, in the eyes of some senior British military generals, the appearance of female combat heroes is not something to boast about, but rather a shame. After all, in traditional European and American culture, except for the Amazonian warriors mentioned in Homer's epic poems, war has always been a man's business.

Assisting in marking the movement of enemy aircraft at radar stations or tracking targets by anti-aircraft gunners at anti-aircraft posts is now the most combat-relevant work that ordinary members of the Women's Auxiliary Service Corps can do.

The vast majority of female service team members who do not have a professional background are assigned to miscellaneous tasks at all levels of headquarters. It is rare to be able to do secretarial work like Pakarina, and most of them are involved in the most mundane cooking and cleaning work.

While talking to a young women's auxiliary sergeant, John discovers that the girl, who has responded to a patriotic call and signed up for the army with her sweetheart, is frustrated that she is being asked to do her work as a servant.

While she laboriously cleaned the floors and windows of the headquarters every day, her boyfriend, who had the same educational background as her, had become a second lieutenant adjutant in the headquarters. Every day, she enjoys the "cleaning service" provided by her and her three other sisters.

The situation was even worse for John from the Business and Professional Women's Alliance. While the government is trying to encourage women to work outside the home, it is not providing them with enough jobs.

In media campaigns and recruitment posters, British women were replacing men from their jobs so that more men could go directly to the fighting.

But the reality is quite the opposite, and there are even more British women who are not working now than before the war. At least 7,000 of the more than 10,000 London women who have registered with the Business and Professional Women's Union and have a clear desire to work are still unemployed.

One of the main reasons for this situation is that employers and workers have not yet reached a consensus on the standard of remuneration for these working women. Some employers insist that women are less productive than men and can only pay them 80% or less of the average male employee.

In John's view, all of this is indicative of the fact that the British have not really recognized the importance of women in this war. (Historically, during World War II, Britain had 450,000 women in the Auxiliaries alone, and another 7.25 million women served the country in other positions.) But he is well aware that women will play an unprecedented role in a war that will affect the fate of the world for the next 100 years, both on and off the battlefield.

Of course, John was not a feminist, and he could understand the attitude of the British government and military on this matter. Yes, the role of women in the war is important, but there are many more things that are much more important than that.

Until the men in Britain are left to hold on, all these initiatives for women in the military and employment are just complementary measures to prevent the worst-case scenario. As for what the future holds, who would think so much. Even the most radical feminists are not fully aware of the importance of women in the society of the future.

After a day's investigation, disappointment was disappointment, and John also found something worth learning from the British practice. For example, they are piloting an employment market registration system.

Under this system, all women between the ages of 19 and 40, unless you are the guardian of a child under the age of 12, must register with the Ministry of Labor.

It's like building a huge talent pool up front. While most women who participate in the registration will not be immediately assigned to work, this registration information can be of great use in the future in the event of a labor shortage.

John felt that the rapid increase in the employment rate of married women in Britain from 16 per cent before the war to 80 per cent in three years must have contributed to the fact that a registration system he had never heard of before.

At the end of the day, John hurried to the Rules Restaurant in Ladies Lane. Even during the war, this high-end restaurant, built in 1798, still required a week in advance to reserve a table. It is said that the family's newly developed dishes from hares and pigeons that are not included in the restrictions are very popular in London's high society.

John was able to get a private box here tonight thanks to Thomas. One of the guy's many lovers happened to be the maîtress of the oldest restaurant in the city of London. Of course, John's special status and the dollars in his pocket are also an important reason.

Tonight, John is going to hold a banquet to entertain the FedEx inspection team led by Leith. Because the restaurant was not allowed to serve alcohol on Wednesdays, he also extorted two bottles of Bordeaux red wine from Thomas.

In the blink of an eye, the five of them had been in Great Britain for almost half a year. More than a dozen reports, more than 2,000 pages, were sent back on the state of transport in Britain alone. It stands to reason that their work should have been successfully completed by the time they sent back their last report more than half a month ago.

The reason why they were not arranged to return home for a long time was that John just wanted to use the influence of Leith and others on Minister Bevan to take the opportunity to sell more of his container shipping plan to the British side.

Now that he has reached an "agreement" with Churchill, Leith's trip can be regarded as a complete achievement. John hosted a banquet for a few of them today, on the one hand, to thank them for their hard work over the past few months. On the other hand, I also want to ask for their own opinions, whether they are willing to return to China, or stay and participate in the next container terminal construction project.

John had also prepared an additional bonus for them. But when he met the five of them, John suddenly decided that it might not be a good idea to give them the prize money right now.