Source: Neatorama
The mass conscription of men to the front line of the fighting resulted in women entering the workforce in great numbers.
In addition to replacing the male labor force in traditional occupations, women served as part of the war machine by performing dangerous jobs: building airplanes and even bombs in munition factories.From The Public Domain Review:
As is documented by this vast collection of remarkable photographs, held by London’s Imperial War Museum, women’s lives were entirely transformed. The images show women performing a whole host of tasks: casting bricks, generating electricity, solutionising cork, building ships, painting railway stations, warming rubber, milking cows, signalling trains, smelting iron, blasting granite, making glucose, digging holes, and constructing houses, in addition to the work already prescribed to them such as childcare…
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