The government had expected 150000 volunteers , it was a defence organisation of Britains army during the first and Second World War. We wanted more men in Grate Britain the jobs that men were meant to do the women did them instead like macking vegetable paks Andy planting seeds or digging holes in the ground people said in the war they needed more men because there wasn’t enough of them to kill of the Germans the women loved there job ometimes they did not all the time .