q5 votes for women

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First of all, on the one hand I do agree it was the work of the women during the war that earned them the vote. When the outbreak of the World War I in August 1914 the women’s suffrage campaigns to an abrupt halt. Women realized that the country had much more important issues to attend to. Both Suffragists and Suffragettes suspended their campaign but also gave them their greatest opportunity to win the vote. They thought if the contribute the government would them think about this more after the World War I ended. Women played vital role performing jobs like nursing, industry work, transport and munitions productions as Source F shows that this was one of the job needed to be ruled, Source G also shows 5 different jobs which women completed in the war “Metal, industries, chemical industries, government offices, food, drink and tobacco. But, before in 1914 when war began women were not allowed to work because the government believed that women should not do this but this changed in 1915 for two reasons. the first reason they were massive shortage of munitions on the Western front as all men were needed to fight and Britain the big empire had the smallest army where it’s allies had many more. Britain artillery was rationed to firing only a few shells a day, while the opposition pounded the front lines non-stop. Secondly, the suffragettes led a huge demonstration to Whitehall in July, for not letting women contribute “We Demand the Rights to Serve.” David Hyoid George saw this opportunity to fill the empty spaces in the workplace. One job that was seriously needed was the munitions as some women’s didn’t like to do this job as they were much better jobs like nurses. One thing the government did was that they created a poster which persuaded women’s to join. They were using such words like “On her lives depend” as well as showing women as caring and helpful so this made women feel that she was doing the work Alone so was needed to work with her and they “Enrol at once.” Once the government started to employ women, the rest of the country followed quickly. For many years’ working class women from poor homes working hard was nothing new.  But now large numbers of middle class, and even some upper classes entered, as derks, bus drivers, land workers and engineers. They dug coal, drove vans, worked crane and over one million women worked as munitions workers were making vital guns, bullets and weapons for men. In source G, it shows the number of women employed in Britain and that’s why in ‘July 1918’ there was so many women work during 1914. This shows the government does think women’s take responsible. But, ion Britain, they were still some women that could help but many of them was stopped by there family but some ran away which increased the number of women employed.

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Later, during 1917 onwards women were now allowed to enlist to other many exciting jobs which also increased the employment. They were jobs like Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (W.A.A.C), Women’s Royal Navy Services (Wrns),  Women’s royal Air Force (W.R.A.F), Women’s Volunteer Police Service and Women’s Land Army. However the exciting jobs women got there was one thing that was bad about this; conditions in these types of works were appalling. In Munitions factories were extremely dangerous when working in TNT or in shell filling shops. They did not get proper food and were sleeping in the most undesirable conditions. ...

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