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Use source G, and your own knowledge, to explain why some men opposed the employment of women in industry during the first world war
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4. Use source G, and your own knowledge, to explain why some men opposed the employment of women in industry during the first world war Source G is a personal account written by a woman worker, which demonstrates the prejudice that women were shown in the workplace during the First World War. It describes scenes of extreme resentment from the woman's male colleagues- "Over and over again the foreman gave me the wrong or incomplete directions" which meant the job took so much longer to do without any extra pay; she didn't have the necessary tools and "it was out of the question to borrow anything off the other men". In this source the men ignored her, refused to speak to her and on one occasion her "drawer was nailed up by the men, and oil was poured over everything in it through a crack". Significantly, this source implies that women...
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