The role of women during WW2
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- The Role of Women During WW2
- Industry
- Worked in munition factories
- Aircraft factories, where they worked a 16 hour day, seven days a week, without a bank holiday
- Transportation
- Engineers, mechanics and lorry, train and bus drivers.
- Land Army
- Handled animals well
- 80,000 women volunteered to work on the land arm, they were then known as 'the land girls'
- Often treated badly and the pay was poor
- Armed Forces
- Included WRNS, WAAF and ATS
- By 1944, there were 450,000 women in these services
- Driving and domestic duties, allowing the men to conscript
- Mechanics, welders, pilots and carpenters
- Included WRNS, WAAF and ATS
- Voluntary Service
- Nursing and making sure children are fed during evacuation
- WVS - Woman Voluntary Service
- Due to men being conscripted, women had to take over their previous jobs
- Industry
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