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First World War.com - Feature Articles - Women and WWI - Women in the Workforce: Temporary Men
One immediate result of the war's outbreak was the rise in female unemployment, especially among the servants, whose jobs were lost to the middle-classes' wish to economise. However, it was soon seen that the only option to replace the volunteers gone to the front was employing women in the jobs they had left behind; conscription only made this need even more urgent as had the Munitions of Work Act 1915 by which munitions factories had fallen under the sole control of the Government. As the main historian of women's work, Gail Braybon, claims, for many women the war was "a genuinely liberating experience" ( link ) that made them feel useful as citizens but that also gave them the freedom and the wages only men had enjoyed so far.The Women of World War I
By popular demand! For all of you who have a school report due tomorrow on women's roles in World War I, I am posting excerpts from my book below.
The day the world changed was the day World War 1 began. The war began in August 1914. Not only was it a pivotal step for Canada and the men that fought for our country, but also for the women who contributed behind the soldiers of the front lines.
Women In World War 1
Women filled many jobs brought into existence by wartime needs.
How did women contribute to the war effort in ww1? - Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers
