Women at War
- Created by: bethfoster
- Created on: 10-02-16 19:01
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- Women at War
- Would run family businesses while men away
- Encouraged men to join the army
- By 1914, 5 million women were employed
- Many women worked in hard labour - munition, metal work
- Women's land army, 16,000 women helping with food
- As casualties rose women started to work full time
- Worked 12 hour shifts, 7 days a week packing weapons, bullets etc
- Some developed lead poisoning and rarely died
- Around 2 million women replaced men in employment
- Women now smoked, drank in pubs, went to town unsupervised short hair, wearing trousers
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