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In what ways did the First World War change the employment opportunities of woman in Britain?
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The Home Front 1914-1918 G.Holgate Coursework Assignment In what ways did the First World War change the employment opportunities of woman in Britain? The First World War ended on the 11th of November 1918. Four million British servicemen got ready to return to their homes and jobs. Women had been allowed to take over skilled industrial jobs normally done by men as long as the war lasted. Now that the war was over, they were expected to give up their jobs to the returning servicemen. Even in the factories that had had existed before the war, many women were pressured into handing in their notice within months of the end of the war; hundreds of thousands of women were out of work. Many of these women did not want to go back to their traditional 'women's work' when they lost their jobs. Domestic service especially unpopular women were willing any job then...
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