Main information, World War I

 This text is a brief introduction about the life of women during the First World War, in the future will also show information about the role of women in the Second World War, multimedia content and some famous women.
During the war, women were recruited in order to do jobs vacated by men who were fighting n the war. For example women started to work in munitions factories. Though people didn't want to hire women for a "men's work", the conscription in 1916 mad ethe need for workers urgent. During this time, the government recruited women.
Now women could work in factories and in the Civil service or for example as postal workers, firefighters and police officers. Howerver, they received lower wages and some of them started demands for equal pay. In munition factories women had to work with poisonous substances without safety measures, as a result they risked their lives and some women died from overexposure to TNT.
Source:http://www.striking-women.org/module/women-and-work/world-war-i-1914-1918