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Jamie Buckler 11S "The lives of British women underwent enormous and permanent changes as a result of the First World War" - To what extent do you agree with this statement? Before, during and after World War One women's working, social and political lives underwent enormous and permanent changes. Women were affected in different ways depending on their social class. This essay will consider many of the changes which women underwent, as a result of the First World War, and how enormous and permanent these changes may have been. Before the war women were thought of as fragile things that belonged in the home, caring for their families. This attitude was mainly towards middle and upper-class women because they were better off and were not expected to work. Between 1870 and the outbreak of WW1 more well-educated women were coming through because education was improving, e.g. elementary schools were extending and Girton, Newnham,...

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