What problems did women face during ww1?
Well, most of the able bodied men were away at war, and a lot of women had to take over men’s jobs. They did things like joining the police force, being postwomen, driving buses and vans, working in farming and forestry, and of course working in munitions factories, which was very dangerous work. And some women would be overseas working with the army as nurses or drivers or other jobs. A lot of women though seem to have enjoyed the challenges of these jobs, and found their work interesting and even exciting. and of course there was rationing in WW1, so they would have had to cope with food shortages, and doing without things, and queuing up to buy food etc. And upper and middle-class women would often have had to adapt to doing without servants, as many domestic servants went off to do war work, working in munitions factories etc. And of course there were air raids, a new form of warfare, which must have been very frightening.
