How useful are Sources D and E in helping you to understand the importance of the work of women in industry during the First World War.
Qu 3 How useful are Sources D and E in helping you to understand the importance of the work of women in industry during the First World War.
Sources D and E are both useful when you are trying to understand how important the work of women in industry was during the First World War. Source D tells you that women are a temporary solution until the men get back from fighting the actual war. It shows you that the factory workers are using the women. This hasn’t been hidden because at the back of the factory on a board this has been written “When the boys come back we are not going to keep you any longer girls”. This tells you that factory owners don’t really care about the women working in their factory and they want the women to know they are only being used. The women aren’t very important to the factory owner he just needs them at the moment so the job can get done. The girls are being taken for granted because they are only the tempory solution they need millions of munitions very quickly at the time and there are not enough men to make them. This is because most of the men are at war at the time.
