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Women on the Home Front (Greater sense of Freedom (Post-War: women…
Women on the Home Front
Emotional distress
Husbands and sons dieing
Had no man to care/protect them
Traditionalist views
Not the same impacts on all women
Depended on a woman's class/social/wealth status
New roles:
Hard physical labour
Female doctors increased
Munition factories
Policewomen increased
1914 - 6 policewomen in Britain
1918 - 650 police women in Britain
Changing Roles
Women maintained the production on the the home front
Had to take over the position of men
More open employement
Women in Munitions
Long working hours
Applealing
Have their own money (freedom of cash)
Better paying than domestic servant
Women moved away from family to work in factories
Dangerous working conditions
Factory explosions
Hundred died
Exposer to toxic material (asbestos)
Many women found unconcious in factories
Toxic fumes
600,000 extra women in factories
Greater sense of Freedom
More responsiblity
Own income
Self-confidence
Happy
More money compared to a domestic servant
Post-War: women expected to give back their jobs to men
Women in the workplace did drop
Big step for women's equality
Many didnot do this (enjoyed their new freedoms)
Emancipation of women
Voting Rights
1917 - women allowed to vote
Proved women are capable of being self-sufficient and capable of doing a 'mans job'