Munitions 1880-1918

New factories opened to produce planes, weapons and ammuntion, many women began to work in these.

• WSPU organised a march ' right to serve' July 1915
•  Lloyd G, £1.500 to pankhurst to organise propaganda to get women to work

July 1915 Government organised a WAR REGISTER for 16-65 yr olds to see who was eligible for war work

Very dangerous and unpleasant but women gave up jobs as domestic servants for the wages in factories

conscription 1916, more women needed, first time women began to be recruited into armed services. 5 million women were working before WW1, by the end of it 6 million women were paid in work