what was the role of women during WW! and how did this help them to get the vote???

what did the different groups do?

• the suffragettes and the suffragists stopped their campaigns
  • the suffragists persuaded men to join the army
  • the suffragettes demonstrated for women to work in munitions
• the order of the white feather was a group of women who gave out white feathers (as a sign of cowardice) to men not in the army

• the mother's union tried to get mothers to persuade their sons to join the army

what jobs did women do and how did attitudes change??

• by 1916 Britain was short of 2 million workers as the men had gone away to fight in the war
  • 6000,000 women took an office job by 1918
  • 200,000 women took on office jobs
  • factories were not keen to employ women as they thought:
    • they would not carry…