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mhsophie

how did the war widen women's employment opportunities?

Reply 1

Puddles the Monkey

Original post by mhsophie

how did the war widen women's employment opportunities?

Heya, I'm going to put this in the History forum for you as you should get more responses there. :h:

You should also check out the forum to see if there's any other threads there which might be helpful to you!http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=141

Reply 2

mhsophie

Original post by Puddles the Monkey

Heya, I'm going to put this in the History forum for you as you should get more responses there. :h:

You should also check out the forum to see if there's any other threads there which might be helpful to you!http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=141

thanks!

Reply 3

04MR17

Volunteer Section Leader

Original post by mhsophie

how did the war widen women's employment opportunities?

This sounds like coursework. Is it?

Reply 4

mhsophie

Nope just regular homework😒...

Reply 5

04MR17

Volunteer Section Leader

Oh right then, what course are you on?

Reply 6

04MR17

Volunteer Section Leader

Which war?
WWI&II:
1.) Men left to fight and die.
2.) Munitions & Food still need to be produced
3.) Imports (e.g. from America) are bombed, restricted etc.
4.) Britain needs to grow more food and produced more Munitions
5.) Men leave employment to fight and die
6.) Then women take over all these jobs because there's a war on you know!
7.) Everyone thinks: "Oh look! Women can work! Their brains don't explode!"
8.) Men die and don't come back, some women keep their jobs.
9.) When at war the women produced more food &munitions than the men because they were at war and needed a greater supply than before.

Thank you so much!!!

I think it's because as men had gone to fight in the war, they needed women to fill in and take up men's jobs so women's employment opportunities widened. Also, due to the munitions crisis many women had to work in munitions factories etc... hope this has helped!