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In 1914 before world war one-started women's roles were just normal duties. If they were married they would stay at home to look after the children while the husband worked for the weekly wage. (A women's place was in the home also cooking and cleaning.) In 1911, a census showed that 90% of all married women did not work. Women worked as servants and in factories. In 1914 there was 5.9 million women working out of 23.7 million. There was about 1.5 million working in domestic service, 900,00 working in textiles and 500,000 in the sweated trades. Some of the middle class women worked as lawyers, teaches or doctors. Domestic Service The middle class women sometimes worked in domestic service but normally had the better jobs as working as governess, chamber maid or lady's maid. A lower class women normally worked as a scully maid which involved all the dirty jobs....

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