changing role of women

Question 1

Enginering saw the biggest increase in Scottish female workers in their contribution to the war effort.

Answer 1

Before the war only 4,000 women were employed in engineering and by 1917 there was 30,000.

Question 2

rationing

Answer 2

By March 1917, food prices raised on average by 32%.

Full scale rationing was in place in Scotland by 1918 and women were able to collect food by using their ration cards

Question 3

Scottish women received the vote in stages after their contribution to the war effort

Answer 3

In 1928, the Equal Franchise act gave all women aged 21 and over the vote, officially making them equal with men.

Question 4

Scots nurses had to work on the front line

Answer 4

Mairi Chisholm was a Scottish nurse who worked treating injured soldiers on the front line in Belgium.

She honoured by the British and Belgian government for her war work

Question 5

Scots women joined the land army

Answer 5

Gov recruitment posters tended to show farm work as ‘easy’ but Scots women were not fooled by the propaganda.

they worked in agriculture before the war and knew how tough the job was.

between 1914-1919, 22,000 were employed in agriculture

Question 6

women had to deal with grief

Answer 6

People found out formally by telegram or received letters from commanding officers about the death of a loved one

neighbours became aware with drawn curtains.

Question 7

women enjoyed a degree of social freedom during the war

Answer 7

they wore trousers and went out socially without companions and even started drinking and smoking

Question 8

women stepped into the roles left by male workers

Answer 8

taking jobs as bus conductors, drivers and importantly munitions workers - where handling cordite caused their skin to turn yellow

Question 9

women points

Answer 9

-engineering
-rationing
-vote
-nurses
-land army
-greif
-social freedom
-fill roles of men