Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Role of women in WW1
- Before war
- treated like second class citizens
- didn't have vote
- few jobs
- low pay
- expected to be housewives
- women had to fill gaps in the workforce
- worked on:
- buses
- typists
- civil serivce
- police
- industries welcomed women
- 200,000 women found work in
government departments
- engineering department
- biggest increase in womens employment
- made ammunitions
- 30,000 women
employed in scotland
- after war
- Restoration of Pre War Practices Act
- meant that soldiers got old jobs back
- the idea that women's work was in
the home was restored