The Home Front During World War I

The Home Front During World War I

Source Based

1. In source A it suggests that when women started changing jobs

during the First World War they usually changed for the better.

The women who wrote this letter in source A said that she worked

in domestic services before the war and 'hated every minute of

it.' This implies that she did not like her work as a domestic

servant and would love it if she could do something else. When

know that her work during the war changed for the better as she

writes that 'So when the need came for women 'war workers' my

chance came to 'get out'.' This is saying that when England needed

women to help with the war effort as things like the munitions

crises were occurring, she got her chance to leave the domestic

service job that she 'hated' and go to another job that she enjoys

more.