How Did World War 1 Changed Very Little For Women
Do you agree with the view that ‘the war changed very little for women’?
Before the First World War, women did not have the vote because they were not seen as contributors towards shaping the country, economically or politically. This is because they were confined, practically, to their homes, as all they could do is cook, clean and look after the children. This is when groups like the Suffragists and the Suffragettes formed. Their aim was to gain the vote. However, propaganda against them made women look useless, even more so. Therefore, not much was changing for them.
During World War One, as more and more went off the fight in the western front, their availability to work in the factories and offices decreased dramatically. In addition, …show more content…
However, as there was no regulation or law regarding a national minimum wage, factory owners exploited this loophole by giving women lower wages, than they would have to men, and their working conditions were very poor. At the time, class was a major part of character judgement, hence making it inevitable to believe that factory owners would have used the fact that “very few” women were “from the middle class” as a reason to not paying women fair wages. This suggests that war changed very little for women, as it also says in Source 9, “it would be wrong, however, to [over]state the extent... the changes in women’s role in the labour force”. This strongly advocates that men still thought that women were inferior to them after the war, regardless their contribution to the “labour force”, therefore, meaning that very little changed for women because they men thought the same of them before and after the …show more content…
The problem was that men from the Western and Eastern Fronts, were returning home and they wanted their jobs back. However, as women occupied most of their jobs, there was major uproar, and as a result, factory owners decided to let go of their women employees to make way for the men. In fact, two years after the war there were “fewer women in work than... before the war”, as it says in Source 7. It also states that the jobs women had “were hardly different from before the war”. This means that, not only women lost their post in helping make Britain and greater state; they also went, essentially, back to square one. This is because the jobs that got after the men returned were similar to those before the war- domestic work. This regression proves that war changed very little for
Before the First World War, women did not have the vote because they were not seen as contributors towards shaping the country, economically or politically. This is because they were confined, practically, to their homes, as all they could do is cook, clean and look after the children. This is when groups like the Suffragists and the Suffragettes formed. Their aim was to gain the vote. However, propaganda against them made women look useless, even more so. Therefore, not much was changing for them.
During World War One, as more and more went off the fight in the western front, their availability to work in the factories and offices decreased dramatically. In addition, …show more content…
However, as there was no regulation or law regarding a national minimum wage, factory owners exploited this loophole by giving women lower wages, than they would have to men, and their working conditions were very poor. At the time, class was a major part of character judgement, hence making it inevitable to believe that factory owners would have used the fact that “very few” women were “from the middle class” as a reason to not paying women fair wages. This suggests that war changed very little for women, as it also says in Source 9, “it would be wrong, however, to [over]state the extent... the changes in women’s role in the labour force”. This strongly advocates that men still thought that women were inferior to them after the war, regardless their contribution to the “labour force”, therefore, meaning that very little changed for women because they men thought the same of them before and after the …show more content…
The problem was that men from the Western and Eastern Fronts, were returning home and they wanted their jobs back. However, as women occupied most of their jobs, there was major uproar, and as a result, factory owners decided to let go of their women employees to make way for the men. In fact, two years after the war there were “fewer women in work than... before the war”, as it says in Source 7. It also states that the jobs women had “were hardly different from before the war”. This means that, not only women lost their post in helping make Britain and greater state; they also went, essentially, back to square one. This is because the jobs that got after the men returned were similar to those before the war- domestic work. This regression proves that war changed very little for