Women's Role in WW1 ?

Question: Women's Role in WW1 !?

1!. Women's role in WW1 - Changes/consequences
2!. Women Until conscription (1916) and after the introduction of conscription
3!. Post-War Period - Women's life after the war

So basically im trying to figure out what women's lives were like before/during/after the war and what affect did the war have on them ie: more jobs, more rights, voting etc!.

Side note: my question is about women in Europe!. !. !.
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Answer to question 3!.

The war bestowed two valuable legacies on women!. First, it opened up a wider range of occupations to female workers and hastened the collapse of traditional women's employment, particularly domestic service!. From the 19th century to 1911, between 11 and 13 per cent of the female population in England and Wales were domestic servants!. By 1931, the percentage had dropped to under eight per cent!. For the middle classes, the decline of domestic servants was facilitated by the rise of domestic appliances, such as cookers, electric irons and vacuum cleaners!. The popularity of 'labour-saving devices' does not, however, explain the dramatic drop in the servant population!. Middle-class women continued to clamour for servants, but working women who might previously have been enticed into service were being drawn away by alternative employment opening up to satisfy the demands of war!. Thus, nearly half of the first recruits to the London General Omnibus Company in 1916 were former domestic servants!. Clerical work was another draw card!. The number of women in the Civil Service increased from 33,000 in 1911 to 102,000 by 1921!. The advantages of these alternative employments over domestic service were obvious: wages were higher, conditions better, and independence enhanced!.

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In the UK the women worked in the factories and mines!.

After WW1 ened in 1918 women were granted voting rights!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

I think I can answer number 1, women's role in World War 1 is to serve as nurses in hospital ships,!.Www@QuestionHome@Com