A short introduction to the female experience of World War I in Britain

Authors

  • Anna Hope

Abstract

Two million women replaced men in employment during the war. They did the jobs the men had done: milk rounds, ticket collectors, van drivers, butchers, bus conductors. Just as it would a couple of decades later, the war opened up new avenues of employment for these, mostly young, women, add to this the legions of women who took jobs in the -very well paid- munitions industry, and women were a potent labour force. (...)

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Hope, A. (2014). A short introduction to the female experience of World War I in Britain. Historical Sociology, (4), 403–410. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/sh/article/view/215591