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19 January 2003 The Home Front Question 1 In Britain, before the war, there were very few working opportunities for women. In 1914 only 5.9 million women out of a total female population of 23.7 million were working in Britain. 1.5 million of these worked in domestic servicing, about 900,00 women worked in textiles and another 500,000 in the 'sweated trades'. Because working class women were not getting a good education they did not get the same opportunities of work as the men did and if they did succeed they were expected to quit after they were married. Middle-class women, although they had some education they were not expected to work because they were the weaker sex and didn't need to because it they were expected to marry early. The reason why many women didn't work was because of the lack of education for girls. It wasn't until 1876 that education became compulsory and...

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