The biggest change that the world war brought to women was the improvement of their social status.

Because all the men went to war, the proportion of female workers in the rear factories increased, and in Britain, where human resources were relatively abundant, the proportion of female workers did not increase much, and in Germany and France, the number of female workers increased.

In Germany, about 5 million women became part of the labour force after the outbreak of the World War, and the share of women in the labour force has increased from 35% before the war to 55% now.

In the UK, about 1.5 million women workers work outside their homes, of which about 750,000 are men before the world wars.

In addition to the 750,000 female workers who replaced men, 350,000 women were engaged in war-related work, and there were all-female units in the military, such as professional nurses in field hospitals, which were all made up of women, and male nurses working in field hospitals were called "nurses", who were generally responsible for manual work.

Relatively speaking, the majority of women workers in France exist in the agricultural sector, including the food industry, and there are not many women in the arsenals, although the French railway system employs a large number of female workers, and before the World War, there were 6,000 women workers in the French railway system, and the current number is 57,000.

As in the UK, France and Germany, the status of women in society is improving in southern Africa.

Before the outbreak of the world war, women in southern Africa had already gained many rights, including the right to vote, and now only women in southern Africa and Switzerland have the right to vote in the world, Swiss women got the right to vote in 1893, and now twenty years later, finally women in another country have the right to vote.

No, strictly speaking, Southern Africa is not yet a country at the moment.

However, when it comes to women's rights, southern Africa has taken the lead, and during the world wars, the first female minister appeared in southern Africa, and she was a finance minister in a key position, which made many European women choose southern Africa as their first choice when emigrating.

Ida has been a bit depressed lately, and after Southern Africa occupied South West Africa and Tanganyika, it began to sell farms in South West Africa and Tanganyika, creating an established fact that South West Africa and Tanganyika would be completely annexed.

Tanganyika has been developed in Germany for many years, and the development of farms is relatively mature, so it sells quickly, and the land in Southwest Africa is less popular.

South-West Africa is one of the driest regions in sub-Saharan Africa, with an average annual rainfall of 270 mm, with wide variations ranging from less than 50 mm on the coast to 350 mm in the central region and 700 mm in the northeast.

There are about 69 million hectares of arable land in South-West Africa, which translates to about 170 million acres, and according to the standards of the Federal Government of Southern Africa, about 1.7 million farms can be established by selling in units of 100 acres.

Of course, this is under ideal circumstances, and there will be deviations in the actual implementation, after all, some people buy hundreds or thousands of acres at a time, and the final farm is definitely not so many.

Less than 50 million acres of land are now sold in South-West Africa, all of which are concentrated in the water-abundant and relatively well-developed north-east, or in the inhospitable areas of the central, southern and coastal regions.

In fact, it is not a desolate area in the real sense, there is no real desert in Southwest Africa, and even the so-called "desert area" is much better than the desert like the Sahara, and it is more appropriate to describe it as the Gobi.

Southwest Africa's greater advantage over underdeveloped agriculture lies in its fisheries and mineral industries, and South-West Africa is known as the "strategic metal reserve", with uranium and diamond reserves among the highest in Africa, but the development is not mature and production is relatively low.

South-West Africa's most promising industries are fisheries and agriculture and pastoralism, which is world-renowned for its purple lambskin and among the top 10 fisheries in the world, mainly cod, tuna, sardines, mackerel, lobster and crab.

"The climate change and the environment are very related, the climate in southern South West Africa is very similar to the climate in the southwest of the Cape, we started to study the desert areas in the southwest of the Cape five years ago, and found that the problem of desertification is not irreversible, but the process of reversal will be very long, it will require more than ten years or even decades of continuous investment, and it will require firm faith and hard work." Professor Carlos of the University of Nyasaland, an expert on climate and who has been working to change the climate in the southwest of the Cape, now looks less promising.

In the democratic system of southern Africa, short-term investment is better, but once the time is extended to more than ten decades, there is basically no need to think about it.

If you think about it, you can understand that in the case of a two-party system or a multi-party system, the term of office of a leader is generally only four to five years, so there will be no long-term planning of more than five years at all, otherwise it is possible to make wedding clothes for others, and after five years of hard work, the results will be accepted by the next government and become the achievements of the next government, which is unacceptable.

The same is true for the desert, can the desert be cured?

Yes!

But the democratic government will not invest in this area at all, and the big enterprises with capital and strength will not do the same, and the powerful big enterprises in southern Africa, such as the South African company and the Bechuana company, will not invest in the farms of Tanganyika, Nyasaland, and Rhodesia, why go all the way to southwest Africa to develop farms.

And it doesn't always work out.

At present, the South African Company and the Bechuana Company are buying large quantities of land in Portuguese West Africa, the Kingdom of the Congo, and the Republic of the Congo, using the cheap human resources in these areas to carry out large-scale plantation development, and in these areas, many plantations are owned by the South African Company and the Bechuana Company, and several large enterprises that originally occupied a monopoly position in Portuguese West Africa are losing ground one after another, and they have to sell their plantations to the South African Company and the Bechuana Company, otherwise they will lose their money.

Portugal is actually also a member of the Entente, after the outbreak of the world war, Portugal symbolically sent two divisions to France to participate in the world war, these two divisions are backward in equipment, low morale, weak will to fight, and have never played any positive role in any battlefield.

Do you want to keep your colonies in Africa?

Dream on!

"It doesn't matter, the federal government's treasury will invest in desertification control in southern South West Africa and southwest Cape, and workers and migrants will be recruited from Africans in Basutoland and Eswatini, and as long as Africans are willing to go to South West Africa, each family will receive a financial subsidy of fifty rand, and from now on there will be no poll tax and war tax." After the outbreak of the World War, the financial situation of the federal government in southern Africa was completely reversed, from the debt before the war to the current wealth, and many important decisions that were previously not on the agenda due to lack of money began to be implemented.

"That's just amazing!" Professor Carlos was overjoyed that if the federal government was determined, the desert regions of South-West Africa would certainly not continue to deteriorate, if not become oases in the near future.

"The parliament will not agree-" Deputy Minister of Finance Will Cortez smiled bitterly, the federal government is indeed a financial turnaround, and the deserts of southwest Africa are indeed to be managed, but when to start, how to start, and how much to invest is not the final word of the Ministry of Finance, but the Nima Parliament.

That's where democracy fucks up, where whites shout that the truth is always in the hands of a few, so rule the majority with a few.

But among the "minority", there is a "minority obeys the majority", so whose hands is the truth?

The same is true of the Southern African Parliament, which is made up of members who have won elections from different states, so these members will definitely vote in favor of the state they represent, which is called "accountable to the voters", so will the majority of parliamentarians agree to invest their hard-earned taxes in South West Africa?

Thinking about it with your toes is impossible.

"I'll communicate with the Prime Minister-" Ida refuses to admit defeat, the matter is man-made, now may be the best time for the federal government's finances, if it does not invest in the management of the deserts of Southwest Africa now, then the deserts of Southwest Africa will never be managed.

"The prime minister can't control parliament either—" Wilcotez was also frustrated, not all MPs had the same big picture as Ida, or rather, MPs knew that the deserts of South West Africa needed to be managed, but they had reasons to vote with their feet.

Those who can be elected to the parliament, regardless of whether they are members of parliament or local councilors, basically none of them are stupid.

Perhaps it is precisely because these people are so smart that they will be smart but mistaken by cleverness, and to manage the deserts of southwest Africa, it really takes some "fools" to complete this task.

The smile on Carlos's face froze, although Ida was trying to promote the governance of the desert in Southwest Africa, but Carlos knew that Ada's efforts were meaningless, just like Wilcotez said, the parliament would not agree, the prime minister would not agree, and Ada's efforts alone were limited after all.

Unless someone far away in Europe comes forward, it may be possible to get the parliament to agree—

It's a pity that Roque is far away, and defeating the Allies is Roque's main task now.

In the evening, Carlos returned to his hotel, where he was a professor at the University of Nyasaland, where he was entitled to a high discount at the Rhodesia Hotel, and the cost of his stay was fully reimbursed by the University of Nyasaland.

"Please wait a minute, Professor Carlos—" A young man in a black suit called Carlos in the hotel lobby.

Carlos stopped, his face a little ugly, he just wanted to go back to his room and get a good night's sleep and forget about what happened today.

Carlos' mood today is like a roller coaster, and the feeling from ecstasy to despair really makes Carlos very uncomfortable.

"Professor Carlos, I'm Lincoln of Nyasaland, and it's a pleasure to meet you—" Carlos was surprised by the young man's name, which few people called now.

Carlos then noticed that the young man who called himself "Lincoln" had black hair and black eyes, and the smile on his face was very sincere.

ps: Wowhahahaha, seeing this name, many brothers should be desperate for my ability to choose a name - whether it's a chapter name or a person's name, it's just as desperate -