Employment

Question 1

What was the most common job for women at the start of the century?

Answer 1

Domestic service

Question 2

Who did most girls end up marrying and what happened?

Answer 2

A boy from Wales, and they moved back home

Question 3

What did domestic servants receive?

Answer 3

Bed, board and uniform

Question 4

What time did a domestic servants day start and finish?

Answer 4

6.30am to 10.30pm

Question 5

What tasks did domestic servants do?

Answer 5

Clean fireplaces, make beds, mend clothes, being hot water to the family in their rooms

Question 6

What was the best job a domestic servant could be promoted to and what did it involve?

Answer 6

A ladies maid- helped the lady of the house get dressed and do her hair

Question 7

What would happen after domestic servants married?

Answer 7

They would give up their job and move back home

Question 8

How many days off did domestic servants have?

Answer 8

1 evening a week, half day on Sunday

Question 9

Where did most Welsh girls go after finishing school at the start of the century?

Answer 9

To England to work in manor houses as domestic servants

Question 10

Where was the textile trade common?

Answer 10

Yorkshire and Lancashire

Question 11

What was the main job of a woman working in the textiles trade?

Answer 11

Spin and weave cloth using machinery

Question 12

What were conditions like in textile factories?

Answer 12

Very poor, dirty and I’ll ventilated, insufficiently heated

Question 13

What shifts did 14 year old girls often work in textile factories?

Answer 13

12 hours

Question 14

How many women were in paid employment in 1918 compared to pre 1914?

Answer 14

1918- 6.19 million

1914- 4 million

Question 15

What jobs did women do during WW1?

Answer 15

Voluntary work: Red Cross

Men’s jobs: Van drivers

Question 16

What happened in 1916?

Answer 16

Conscription

Question 17

What was dilution?

Answer 17

The government’s agreement with trade unions that women could do jobs usually done by men for the period of the war

Question 18

What were women who worked in munitions, during WW1, known as?

Answer 18

Munitionettes

Question 19

Why were Munitionettes often called canaries?

Answer 19

Exposure to TNT turned their skin yellow

Question 20

What was the job of Munitionettes?

Answer 20

To produce shells

Question 21

Why did working in munitions change the social lives of women?

Answer 21

The became a very close group of friends and would go out together etc

Question 22

What roles did women play in the uniformed services during WW1?

Answer 22

Women’s Royal Air Force

Women’s Royal Naval Service

Question 23

Why were women in the Air Force known as penguins during WW1?

Answer 23

They couldn’t fly

Question 24

How many women were in the Women’s Royal Naval Service in 1917?

Answer 24

3000

Question 25

How many women were in the Women's Royal Air Force in 1918?

Answer 25

32,000

Question 26

When was the Land Army created?

Answer 26

1915

Question 27

What did women in the Land Army do?

Answer 27

Picked potatoes, tended animals, collect harvest, ploughed land and felled timber

Question 28

Why did WW2 disrupt women's lives?

Answer 28

Children evacuated | Rationing affected shopping and cooking

Question 29

When was the WW2 conscription?

Answer 29

1941

Question 30

What did the conscription of 1941 mean?

Answer 30

Unmarried women aged 20-30 had to work

Question 31

When was the conscription of 1941 extended and what did it mean?

Answer 31

1943- Extended to married women aged 18-50

Question 32

Where did women work during the Second World War?

Answer 32

Weapons factories Armed services Land

Question 33

What allowed mothers to work during WW2?

Answer 33

Nurseries set up

Question 34

What did women produce in munitions factories during WW2?

Answer 34

Guns, aircraft, tanks and munitions

Question 35

How long were typical shifts in munitions factories during WW2?

Answer 35

10 hours

Question 36

How many women worked in the armed services during WW2?

Answer 36

475,000

Question 37

What was the ATS?

Answer 37

Women's Auxiliary Territorial Services

Question 38

What was the WRENS?

Answer 38

Women's Naval Service

Question 39

What was the WAAF?

Answer 39

Women's Auxiliary Air Force

Question 40

What jobs did women do in the armed services during WW2?

Answer 40

Drove service vehicles, flew warplanes between bases staffed anti-aircraft guns