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Women before, during and after WW1 by T.J.Bewick 1. Pre war women did have working opportunities though very little compared to men, as they were seen as weaker and that their place was in the "home". Their employment was limited to the domestic service (cleaning or working as a servant) and secretarial work and not manual labour in factories or working class women often worked in the textiles industry. Women were lower paid and were restricted to do less skilled work, as they were considered incompetent. Working class women also worked in the "sweated" trades producing hats and constructing dresses. Since 1880's new technology such as telephone's and typewriters changed women's jobs as women were used to type and answer the phone's. Some middle class women had professions such as teachers, as in Scotland 60% of teachers were women and they even became doctors due to many middle class women having...

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