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Describe the Employment Opportunities of Women in Britain Between 1914 and 1918 In 1914, women's roles were traditional ones. Many had housewife duties and did the cooking, cleaning and motherly chores of the household. Upper class and most middle class women were not expected to work. In 1911, a census showed that 90% of all married women did not work at all. But as more and more men joined the army, there was a great demand for more women to work and more jobs became available to them. Pre 1914, working class women worked as servants and in factories. In 1914 there were 5.9million women working out of 23.7million. In domestic service, there were 1.5million women working, 900,00 were working in textiles and 500,000 in the sweated trade. Middle class women sometimes worked as lawyers, teachers, teachers or doctors. But this was a very small number and very few middle class...

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