Consequeces Of War On Women

Question 1

When WW1 broke out, what happened to the suffrage movement

Answer 1

It halted

Question 2

Women were now needed to help with what

Answer 2

The war effort and had to do a range of important jobs

Question 3

How did the women of WSPU become dur8ng the war

Answer 3

They became very patriotic

Question 4

Women as factory workers

Answer 4

After conscription was introduced in 1916, women worked in factories

Question 5

Women as nurses

Answer 5

Women were needed to tend to men’s wounds on the front lines in France and Belgium. They slept in their clothes and their hair short. They wore boots and had lice on their clothes and their underclothes stuck to them.

Question 6

What were the Women’s land Army

Answer 6

With men away fighting, someone had to bring in the harvests and keep the farms going. The WLA was then formed and their uniform was brown corduroy trousers, green jerseys and leggings. A WLA hat and hobnail boots.

Question 7

How much were the WLA PAID

Answer 7

18 shillings a week, they spent 12 to board and food and 6 shilling was left.

Question 8

WLA’s harvesting was done

Answer 8

By hand and horses.