How did women’s roles in the workforce change during world war i?

World War I was a breakthrough in the incorporation of women into the market.

Until that time she had been relegated to housework or accompanying her husband in the different social events. Even during the rise of the Industrial Revolution, women were relegated to the care of their children and only a few - in most single cases - managed to enter the production process, but always relegated and with lower wages than men.

The war was a change: on the one hand, the recruitment of a large part of the male population to come to the front, and, on the other, the industrial needs derived from the war, attracted women to the labor camp.

The First World War creates new roles for women assuming jobs and responsibilities in which they had previously been excluded: thus, for example, women working in the banking sector grew from initials from 9,500 to almost 64,000.

The incorporation of women into the labor market reaches figures never seen so far. In addition, they take on jobs as diverse as chimney sweeps, truck drivers or workers in the arms industry. Thus, between France and Britain, more than 1.5 million women worked in armament factories; while in Germany 38% of the Krupp war factory was made up of women in 1918.

the answers are a b and d