Describe the ways in which women's work in the home contributed to the war effort.

... 1) Describe the ways in which women's work in the home contributed to the war effort. Women's role in the home played a large part in the war effort. They did this by ways such as rationing, evacuation and participating in campaigns like "Dig for Victory". Rationing was limiting the amount of food each household received during a shortage. It was first introduced at the end of world 1 and the government rationed food and essential supplies. From November 1941 the British adopted the German point system, where each food was assigned a points value and each person had 20 points to spend every week. Rationed goods included butter, bacon, sugar, meat, tea, margarine, petrol, cosmetics (except lipstick), clothes eggs and milk. Bread, potatoes, fruit, fish and fresh vegetables were not. Paper was also rationed and people had to use newspaper for toilet paper. Silk stockings were banned, as the silk

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