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Describe the employment opportunities available to women in 1914 at the outbreak of the First World War.  

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Describe the employment opportunities available to women in 1914 at the outbreak of the First World War During the course of this essay I shall be studying the employment opportunities for women at the start of World War One in 1914. I shall be comparing the opportunities available for women of different social classes. I will study some of the available jobs and look at the equality laws and education opportunities for women or more specifically, the lack thereof. At the outbreak of war during 1914 there was not a great deal available for women in terms of employment opportunities, some had very little choice and others had no choice at all, first I shall look at the upper class women of leisure. As their quite apt title suggests these women had no job and no need for a job. Their husbands would have been rich businessmen or lawyers...

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