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Describe the employment opportunities of women in Britain in 1914 at the outbreak of war.
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Abdullah Mamaniat 10Q Assignment One: Objective One: - The Home Front Question 1 Describe the employment opportunities of women in Britain in 1914 at the outbreak of war. One of the biggest changes brought about by the First World War was the great increase in the number of women who went to work. At the outbreak of war in 1914, out of a total female population of 23.7 million, nearly 5.9 million were working. The total number of women working went up by more than a million between 1914 and 1918, as women took over a wide variety of different jobs in order to release men for service in the forces. In 1914, most women, if they did work, had jobs in domestic service. In fact 1.5 million women and girls were employed in this trade. Domestic service was the employment of hired workers by private households for the...
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