Describe the employment opportunities of women in Britain in 1914 at the outbreak of war.
...ic services is when the woman goes into someone’s household and does their cooking, cleaning and other jobs around the house, the woman becomes a servant in a sense. At the declaration of war women’s work did not immediately rise. In many cases it more of less fell. Some industries had to make many women workers redundant due to the interruption of supplies. So by mid to late 1914, 190,000 women had lost their jobs. The jobs that many of the women were involved in depended mainly on their education, social class and marital status. The working class women were generally involved in textiles and domestic services. If a woman was married she was expected to stay at home and look after the family. Unmarried middle class women had a much wider variety of jobs available to them. They were involved in office work like being a typist, a clerk and bookkeeping. Other professions middle class women were involved in included doctoring, accounting and teaching. Unfortunately women were discriminated against in the workplace and had poorer opportunities of promotion and were generally paid less. For example, a female teacher was paid 25%...