... to keep everything running. A lot of women went to work in munitions factories, and as office clerks. There was also a need for labour in factories, however there was a reluctance to take women on in this kind of trade, but by 1916 the need for labour was to dire to pass up on female workers so women were allowed to work. During the war, attitudes had been changing in areas other than industry. Education, for example was allowing more females to teach and colleges/universities were becoming less and less reluctant in allowing girls to enrol. Because the suffragettes/suffragists had to drop their campaigns and change to support the war, they still did not gain the vote for all women. Which made the groups be sure to keep the issue in the public eye so that the government did not lose sight of the previous effort put into getting where ...

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