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What did World War One really do for women?

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Contribute to a meaningful feminine transformation of the world by building bridges, sharing knowledge and experience, and creating new opportunities together Future readiness: High tech and high touch: To fill the gap left by a generation of fighting men, more than a million women took the chance to join the workforce between and They worked across the economy - from tram drivers and train cleaners, to postal workers and police patrols.

The wartime woman worker producing munitions for the front is among the most familiar visual legacies of the war. But conditions were poor and the work was arduous. What's the real story behind this picture of Woolwich Arsenal?

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Although figures were suppressed to keep morale high, accidents were common. An explosion at a TNT plant in Silvertown, East London, cost 73 people their lives and destroyed hundreds of nearby homes in January Dangerous chemicals caused health problems that would outlast the war itself. TNT, for instance, turned thousands of workers' skin yellow — the so-called 'canaries' of the arms factories.

Though women often earned more than they had before the war, workers in munitions factories were still paid as little as half the wages of the men doing similar jobs. Factory work was often monotonous. Women often found themselves doing jobs that had been simplified into a series of unskilled tasks. The workers of one factory in Quedgeley, Gloucestershire, filled over 17 million shells in the four years of war.

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In order to keep pace with demand from the front line, 12 hour shifts were common — and some women worked 13 days without a break. Ireland in ; Irish and Northern Irish pop. For some, life after the war offered new opportunities. The Sex Disqualification Removal Act of made it illegal to exclude women from jobs because of their gender.

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Educated, middle class women found that doors to the professions previously closed to them were suddenly opening. Moreover, the Representation of the People Act enfranchised 8. But there was an economic downside. The Restoration of Pre-War Practices Act forced most women to leave their wartime roles as men came home and factories switched to peacetime production.

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For some, the clock was turned back, ushering in a time of economic hardship and low expectation at home, where women found themselves grieving or caring for injured male relatives or husbands. Despite their pioneering contribution, thousands of women were dismissed from their jobs, particularly in engineering; those who objected to standing aside were met with public anger. And old ways reasserted themselves, as newly unemployed women war workers were pressured into becoming domestic servants.

The Suffragette movement finally received the recognition it had been seeking after over a decade of campaigning. But it was a partial victory, as only women over the age of 30 were allowed to vote, outnumbered in an electoral system which gave all men over 21 the right to cast their ballots. Just one woman was elected to parliament in the General Election of December Despite their invaluable wartime contribution, most women were expected to return to business as usual at home.

The last hundred years has seen a transformation in women's lives. How much of this change dates back to the four years of World War One - and what was the biggest change in women's lives as a result of the conflict? However, those gains could not be completely consolidated after the war was over; many women were forced from their jobs once the men returned and expected to go back into domestic life. Many women had earned the right to vote, but such things as going to university or standing as MPs were still overwhelmingly the preserve of men.