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Q. Describe the employment opportunities for women at the outbreak of war in 1914?
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Q. Describe the employment opportunities for women at the outbreak of war in 1914? When the Fist World War broke out in 1914, 5.9 million women were working in Britain out of the total female population of 23.7 million. The most common jobs that women worked in were domestic services, textiles and the 'sweated trades' although they did work in other jobs such as teaching and nurse those were the most common. Women worked in these jobs as inferiors and were paid two-thirds or less of a man's wage. In 1914, women's education was not advanced. The compulsory free school stopped at the age of twelve and so most girls would go to school until the age of twelve and then stop. So if a girl wanted higher education it either meant paying school fees or winning a scholarship. The other problem facing young women was that...
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