Impact of WW1

Outbreak of war

• 6 million men were removed from the economy into the armed forces
• Around 1 million women joined the workforce
• The suffragettes and suffragists put their campaigns on hold to support the war effort
• The White Feather Campaign was a movement where women would give those they deemed fit enough to fit a white feather. it was a sign of weakness and cowardice

War work

• 1 million women entered the workforce and by 1918 1/3 of the workforce was female
• 113,000 women joined the Women's Land Army to provide a workforce for agriculture due to a reduction of imports
• Trade Unions didn't want women to work in men's places so in 1915, Christabel Pankhurst organised a 'right to serve' march which demanded the right for women to work in the more dangerous jobs to help the…