Women Prior To Ww1

Over the course of WWI, empires were destroyed, numerous new nation states were created, and independence movements were being encouraged all throughout europe. This was caused change in almost everyone's day to day life. In particular, women in europe started witnessing more change than ever before. Prior to WWI, women working outside the home was frowned upon and very rare. However, once the war began, more and more opportunities were given to women to prove and change how the world though of them forever. For example, women started working outside the home, and even started maintaining jobs that were considered absurd for a women to take on. World War One created a different attitude towards women in the public sphere by making

A woman's daily life involved mostly cleaning and taking care of the family. Starting with her father and then being married off to her husband, women were controlled by men their whole life. Society viewed woman's main purposes as to marry, reproduce, and serve her husband and family. Women in Europe, were broken up into three different classes; the upper class, middle class, and underclass. Even though all these women maintained the same job, each of their lives were very different. The underclass women were deprived of education, jobs, and therefore some resorted to prostitution to make a living. The middle class, which was the majority of women, had laborious work schedules which included jobs such as agricultural laborers, seamstresses, and servants for the upper class. But even though they took these jobs to help pay for the financial costs of the family, women working in general was very much frowned upon in society. Finally, the upper class women usually inherited some of their father's wealth, which meant they were often married of to high standing men. The world observed women as people who had no rights and were supposed to do as they were told. Before World War I, women were thought to be less intelligent than men, and therefore society only expected the very least out of

There was a huge shift in the kind of work women wanted to perform. For instance, only a few women wanted to return to domestic service which thus caused a greater number of occupations to be opened up for women. For example, postwar legislation granted British women the right to become lawyers and enter professions that had to do with civil law. However, women were being demobilized from their jobs so men can return to their prewar positions hence, causing many women to be upshot from the workplace. Thousand of women were dismissed from munitions factories, which then caused many protests, but that still had very little effect. The message being sent by the government and employers was that women could not expect the same kinds of opportunities that they had during the war. Any evidence of male unemployment, caused society to see women as depriving men of work by refusing to leave it and return home. Such criticism by the world, showed no understanding of the fact that women might not want to return back to domestic work. But although many employers were against women working in a prewar state, many manufacturers realized that because heavy wartime losses had left them with a labour shortage, they would have to employ women. Nevertheless, women were paid less and was deemed to require less skill than work done by men. Overall, WWI did not bring that much of a difference into a women’s day to