go home and wait for there husband
They can do all kinds of work, just like men.
the men were gone to war!
The primary occupations of women before World War 1 were teaching and nursing. Of course, there were exceptions to this, but the war did create the opportunity for women to work in factories and other jobs that had typically been held by men.
Women in the World of Work - 1918 I was released on: USA: 15 April 1918
World War 1 would assume they'r the man of the house hold to go and fight for the country, there for women where left to apply for money. Only solution for this is to go and work. women where even doing jobs that could of never been done before the war.
During world war 2, there were about 25 % to 30 % of women who worked outside the house at paying jobs. More married women, more mothers, and more minority women found jobs than had before the war.
Gustave Courbet
Women wanted equal pay for equal work. Women historically got less pay than men did for the same amount of work. Women also didn't get the best jobs.
World War I was the largest change that allowed women to enter the work force in the 1920s. Men were drafted into the war, which left vacancies at factory jobs, which had typically not been available to women before then.
Women became most independent after World War 1, taking on the "men's roles" but but became more independent again during WW2. Some main roles of women before WW2 are nurses, shop assistants and typists.
In some parts of the world they were forced to work, in others they did it from a sense of patriotism