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Why did the number of women employed in Britain rise significantly from mid 1915?  

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Why did the number of women employed in Britain rise significantly from mid 1915? Why did the number of women employed in Britain rise significantly in mid 1915? . Well there are a lot of reasons for this is that in 1915 and before women were seen as inferior. Men thought that women were useless as they were the weaker sex and they couldn't do jobs as god as men and when the war began men had to go and join the army so there was a shortage of staff in work places. At first people thought that the war was going to be short and factories etc didn't think to get backup for the vacant jobs left by workers who joined the army and thought that there was no reason to change anything. As the war got bigger more and more men had to volunteer to join the army men were...

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