How Do Women's Work During Ww1

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Women's work in WW1

During WWI (1914-1918), large numbers of women were recruited into jobs vacated by men who had gone to fight in the war. New jobs were also created as part of the war effort, for example in munitions factories. The high demand for weapons resulted in the munitions factories becoming the largest single employer of women during 1918. Though there was initial resistance to hiring women for what was seen as ‘men’s work’, the introduction of conscription in 1916 made the need for women workers urgent. Around this time, the government began coordinating the employment of women through campaigns and recruitment drives.

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This did not happen; either the women were forced to make way for the returning soldiers or women remained working alongside men but at lower wage rates. But even before the end of the war, many women refused to accept lower pay for what in most cases was the same work as had been done previously by men. The women workers on London buses and trams went on strike in 1918 to demand the same increase in pay (war bonus) as men. The strike spread to other towns in the South East and to the London Underground. This was the first equal pay strike in the UK which was initiated, led and ultimately won by women.

Following these strikes, a Committee was set up by the War Cabinet in 1917 to examine the question of women’s wages and released its final report after the war ended (Report of the War Cabinet Committee on Women in Industry, Cmd 135, 1919,

In the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, women largely employed on unglamorous tasks on the lines of communication: cooking and catering, storekeeping, clerical work, telephony and administration, printing, motor vehicle maintenance. Women also became truck and ambulance drivers as more and more of the men were called to the front line.
17. Nurses on the front line
18. Women became more visible in the world of work. They were seen to be doing important jobs.
19. Wages for women rose as well. Improved wages did permit greater independence for some women. ‘Palmer’s Munitionettes’: a women’s football team made up of workers from Palmer’s Shipbuilding Company
20. After the War1 Women were expected to give way to men returning from the forces and return to pre-war ‘women’s work’.2 The assumption that ‘a woman’s place is in the home’ returned.3 The percentage of women at work returned to pre-war levels.4 More women than before worked in offices.
21. After the War5 Shorter skirts and hair became fashionable.6 Women went out with men without a chaperone.7 Women smoked and wore make-up in public for the first time.8 in 1919: being female or married was no longer allowed to disqualify someone from holding a job in the professions or civil