Source B is useful as evidence of the work carried out by women during the First World War because it gives statically evidence showing areas were women workers increased from 1914 -1915 and because it tells us some industries women worked in (and how many of them ). Furthermore, source B is useful because it is a school textbook designed to educate and because it was published in the 1980s, so they had a lot of chance to look at different sources and assignments to gather the right information. Also source B is useful because it is statistics from a school text book which is meant to inform and educate, so there is no reason to manipulate the evidence.
Although sources A and B are useful to a extent as evidence of the work carried out by women during the first world war, they both have limitations.
Source A is limited as evidence of the work carried out by women during the First World War because it doesn’t give details of other jobs women were doing during that time. Also source A is not useful because it is a government produced poster so it has a specific aim, this can be shown or symbolised by the women in the poster which looks glamour’s , healthy and happy . This is exaggerating as munitions worker and were very unhealthy do to chemicals in the factories and there face and hands turned yellow, so they didn’t look so glamour’s. The poster is exaggerated due to its purpose. Also source A is limited because it only focuses on one time 1916; there were women workers before that in 1915. Furthermore source A is limited as evidence of women workers in ww1 because it has a specific agenda, which is to encourage women to join the munitions work and over exaggerated.
Source B is limited as evidence of the work carried out by women during the First World War because it only mentions four types of work women carried out in the First World War. Also because it doesn’t tell us how many women there were overall comparing to the amount of women which were working . Also source B is limited because it doesn’t tell us what happened in between the years 1914-18 and what women were doing during this time. Furthermore source B is limited because as a school text book when being published the statistics might have been rounded up or down ,so we don’t really know whether the statistics are the actual number .
In conclusion source A is useful as evidence of the work carried out by women in the first world war as it shows and tells us that women done some munitions work . However it was limited because it gives us other industries women worked in and what they went through.
In conclusion source B is useful as evidence of the work carried out by women in the First World War because it uses statistics and because it is a school text book so it has no agenda. Also source B is limited as evidence of the work women carried out in ww1 because it doesn’t tell us what happened and because it doesn’t give us a visual image .