Women were typically "homemakers" before World War 1; cleaning, cooking, sewing. But women all over the world experienced an extreme transition in their lifestyle during the war years. With men going off to war, there were hundreds of thousands of jobs that needed to be filled. In many industries the number of women employed increased greatly. In Britain almost two million women took the jobs of men that were off fighting and in Austria a million women joined the workforce. Some of the most common roles of women during WWI were nurses, factory workers, sewing bandages, and building ships. Plus many more other positions in engineering and industries. A survey in 1917 actually found that 68% of women had different jobs than when the war started. However some places like Germany opposed women joining into the workforce, seeing as they were more willing to work for less pay and possibly more hours than men, many feared women would take their jobs. The job opportunities women were given during WWI showed the world that women were capable of much more than what was previously thought of them.
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