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Before the war women were homemakers. But with most of the men serving their country in war, women replaced their jobs.

Young women becamce nurses (with basic medical training). Many worked on the farms, bringing in the harvest and keeping the farm going. Many women worked in factories and other government departments. Demand for stenographers, telephone operators, telegraphers, book-keepers and cashiers increased and were filled in by women.

When the men left to go to war women had to take the men's places. Some of the jobs they done included; working in shell/ammunition factories, post women, some women went to war, but they weren't fighting instead they were cooking meals or nursing, some women began working on farms as well.

When men returned from war most women returned to what they were doing before men left. This was mainly cooking, cleaning, and looking after their children.

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while men were away at war women had to do their jobs.

They did jobs like farming and working in factories. They also worked on trains and bus drivers. working in the factories was very dangerous for women as their hands could get chopped off!

Basically, while the men were away at the war, the women had to take over their jobs. So women began to do clerical work too along with ^. So on top of the amount of work they had to do at their day jobs, the women also had to go home and complete their houshold duties, so the women were doing double, their household job and the men's jobs.

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Women worked doing many jobs during World War 1 when men were away fighting. They worked as members of the land army (farming), as nurses, in munitions factories, in public transport, as police women, in post offices and making weapons. By the end of the war women were also being recruited into the armed foces as cooks, clerks, telephonists, electricians, instuctors and code experts to free up men to fight. Many women still did their usual jobs cleaning their homes and looking after the children. This changed the way we saw women in the 20th century.

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Some jobs that women did in the city were: resurfacing roads, working in the motor corps and running shops. Women also worked in factories making weapons for the troops at war. Women were relied on by men to make ammunition so they could win the war. Women were also farmers. They would plough the fields and plant new crops.

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About 30,000 women worked in the munition plants, 1600 worked for the Royal Air Force, 2000 women worked as nurses, 5000 other women worked as police officers for civil service, and 500,000 women worked in jobs left behind by soldiers. So women had major roles in the wartime economy.

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they also worked in factories making bombs and planes ect

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The housewives used to grow vegetables and look after Britain in the war.

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Nursing, machine work, factory work, ect.

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Yes because the men were at war

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