Jobs Women Took Over

Question 1

Medical

Answer 1

Nursing was popular, women formed medical units that were sent to the front line to treat wounded soldiers

Question 2

Office Work

Answer 2

Nearly 200,00 in Government departments and nearly half a million became clerical workers in private offices

Question 3

Transport

Answer 3

Women worked as conductors on trams and buses

Question 4

Public Safety

Answer 4

Women joined the Police Force

Question 5

Heavy Work

Answer 5

High demands for unloading coal, stoking furnaces and building ships

Question 6

Skilled Professions

Answer 6

Women became engineers which they were previously not allowed to do

Question 7

Armed Forces

Answer 7

*The first time women were allowed to join (non-combat role).
*Women’s Royal Navy Service formed in 1916 & Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps

Question 8

Factories

Answer 8

*By the end of the war, 31, 500 women were employed in munition factories alone, they produced 80% of weapons and shells for the British Army
*Became known as the “Canaries” because the poison used to turn their skin yellow

Question 9

Land Army

Answer 9

Women’s Land Army formed to work on farms, helped prevent worse food shortages during the war