WW1 roles

• The role that women played during WW1

  Helped some women get the vote in 1918
• Jobs that women took on during WW1


  • Key reason that led to them gaining the vote
• The suffragists and suffragettes supported the war effort
• The WSPU (women's social and political union) stopped their campaigning during the war and the government released all WSPU ( women's social and political union) prisoners
• Jobs women did during WW1

  • Worked in munitions factories
  • Worked as conductors on trains and buses
  • Worked on farms
  • Worked on docks
  • Worked in the police
• The war effort helped some women gain the vote


  As a 'thank you for the valuable work done during WW1 which won them respect and balanced the negative publicity of the pre war suffragette campaign
• The war effort did not play a key role in gaining some women the vote

  The majority of women in munition factories didn't get the vote as they were working class and they were very young