Women working in World War I
During World War I women were recruited into jobs that were formerly reserved for men, for example as railway guards and ticket collectors, buses and tram conductors, postal workers, police, firefighters and as bank ‘tellers’ and clerks.
Some women also worked heavy or precision machinery in engineering, led cart horses on farms, and worked in the civil service and factories. By 1917 women also worked in munitions factories and around 400 women died from overexposure to TNT during the war.