Homefront Women's Roles

Women's roles on the homefront ,include “piece work” which means They undertook tasks such as washing, ironing, sewing, lace-making and assembling toys or boxes. Women also worked housewives, taking care of their children and homes. Women who lived out on the countryside fulfilled their farm duties, such as helping out with the harvesting. “Women workers” Some women worked as nurses and a very small number worked as doctors. Many more women began to train and work in medicine and education during the war. Some women worked as school teachers or as governesses, there was a rise in the number of women taking jobs in offices. Their duties were mainly administrative tasks. Other women worked in cotton factories where some of the roles involved