Women preparing projectile heads at Cunard Shell Works, Merseyside, 1917.
Despite the shortage of male labour during the War, men were still often used as managers and skilled workers.
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Teachers Notes: Women, work & WWI
Worksheet: Women and War Work
Whiteboard Activity (Smart): WWI - Women's war work
Whiteboard Activity (Promethean): WWI - Women's war work
Teaching Idea
How did WWI change the role of women in Britain?Ask students to look through the 'Woman at Work' Image by Theme collection and make a table (by copying and pasting images and captions) of all the images showing women at work during WWI. They will need to click through to the larger image to see what date the photograph was taken. They must then use this primary evidence to create a set of criteria by which to assess it, in relation to the question 'How did WWI change the role of women in Britain'? You may wish to direct students back to the 'Women at Work' photographs, to look for those taken before 1914 as these will help them to understand/prove what jobs women were doing before the war
Learning Aims and Outcomes
- Students will use primary evidence to help in their understanding of how WWI changed womens lives
- Students will be able to demonstrate skills in assessing and using primary evidence, such as the creation of criteria
- Students will gain an understanding of the actual impact the war would have had on real people
- Relates to: History A (EDEXCEL)- Course Work options C1: Votes for women 1900-28, C6: The home front
- Relates to: History B (EDEXCEL)- Option K: The campaigns for womens suffrage 1870 - 1918
- Relates to: History B (AQA) - Option Y: Britain in WWI - How did the war change life in Britain
Prior Knowledge
- A broad concept that WWI changed the lives many people on the Home Front
- An awareness of womens rights before the war would be useful
Extended Learning and Useful Links
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