The First World War was fought on two fronts. In a military sense
it was fought on the battlefields throughout Europe, the Gallipoli
peninsular and other such theatres of war, but on the Home Front it
was the arduous efforts of women that kept the country running.
Before the war women in the workplace were employed in such jobs as
domestic service, clerical work, shop assistants, teachers or as
barmaids. These jobs were nearly all undertaken by single women, as
once they were married their job swiftly became that a of a wife,
mother and home maker. The outbreak of the war changed all of that.
Suddenly, women were catapulted into a whole new sphere of work
that had previously been the sole domain of men. Women began to
work in munitions factories, as nurses in military hospitals, bus
drivers, mechanics, taxi drivers, as well as running homes and
looking after children, all whilst worrying about their men folk
who were away fighting a war in some foreign clime, not knowing if
they were ever going to see them again.With the work came a wage,
which provided women with financial freedom for the first time, as
well as an element of independence and social integration, which
they would have possibly never otherwise experienced. Women were
not paid the same wages as men for doing the same work, but what
they did earn was much more than they had ever earned before. This
was also a time of the suffrage movement, who wanted more out of
life for women. Accordingly, some of these women were reluctant to
stop working, with some of these being sacked so that returning
soldiers could have their pre-war jobs back. Whilst, tens of
thousands of women were left widowed, many with young children to
bring up. Despite all of this, one thing was for sure, for lots of
women there was no going back to how things had been before the
war. There was only going to be one way, and that was forward.
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