... issue in the public eye, but had failed to get the vote. Thus there were many reasons why attitudes were changing but work of women in the First World War was probably the main one. When war broke out in 1914, the Suffragists and Suffragettes stopped their campaigning to concentrate on helping towards the war effort. They 'filled in the gap' left by the men who went out to fight. The women took over jobs that the men did before and it was this, which changed men's view towards female suffrage. There had been a 'revolution in jobs' because women started to do jobs only men had done before. Women had not been considered capable before and at first it was strange for women to be having a totally different role. There was a big shortage in labour due to the men leaving to fight and in 1916, Britain had up ...

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