Part 1 of Essay
women during world war 1” The early rush of volunteers and later the conscription of men led to a shortage of manpower on the home front. Women, already working in munitions factories were encouraged to take on jobs normally done by men. This was the start of major social change. Before the war, women had been content to ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... sharp mind and a capacity for ideas, he was quick to exploit the female labor in munitions factories. Initially a mans job but before long 90% of the workers were women. “ The courage of women in the munitions factories has never been sufficiently recognized. They had to work under conditions of real danger to life and limb, and what some of them dreaded still more, of grotesque disfigurement some of the pearls of the shell filling factories was toxic jaundice resulting from TNT poisoning. This turned their faces ....