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Women learning to make shells
Unknown, 1916, Press cutting, Reproduction
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Women learning to make shells
Women learning to make shells
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32700
Title
Woman-power vital to gun-power: work for which women are needed by the hundred thousand
Description
From the Illustrated London News published November 11th 1916. Drawings by S.Begg.
Artist / maker
Unknown
Date
1916
Size
39.6 x 53.4cm
Type
Press cutting
;
Reproduction
With many men away fighting in France the government actively encouraged women to join the work force. A million women had done this by the end of the war. By 1917 80% of weapons were made by women, though many of them were paid less than half the wages of their male counterparts.
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ILN During WWI: Women and Children during the War
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