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The image on the cover of Linux Cookbook depicts armament workers. In World War I, women found opportunites in the workplace as skilled laborers in armament factories. A Women's Bureau was created to protect the women's jobs, but many returned to the home when the soldiers returned at the war's end. Women's contribution in the workplace was an important element in the growing support for women's suffrage, finally achieved in 1920 with the passing of the 20th Amendment.