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In what ways did the First World War change the employment opportunities of women in Britain?
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In what ways did the First World War change the employment opportunities of women in Britain? The First World War gave many recently unemployed women to get jobs and to move into different sectors of employment. With every war come shortages and the First World War was no exception so as factories where geared toward the war effort and materials such as silk become sparse and rare many rich women stopped buying dresses so a lot of seamstresses and dressmakers where put out of work by late 1914 was estimated that 40% of previously employed women were out of work. The pre-war level of employment for women wasn't reached until April 1915,so although at the start of the war it caused women to lose their jobs the war then allowed women to get back into work quite soon and get better pay then what they where getting before as seamstresses, domestic...
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