What sort of jobs did women do during the war?

Individual women wanted to do their bit for the war effort and began working as early as 1915 as drivers, bus conductors, police and railway staff. However it was not until the introduction of conscription that women started to be play a major part in the workforce of Britain. During the war a total of 5 million men joined the amred forces. To keep British industry going it was vital to replace these men. Women worked in factories, steel mills, driving buses, building ships, working on the railways, or even as agricultural workers as part of the 'Women's Land Army'.

Some women even went to the war zones as nurses to look after the injured and dying in the hospitals of Northern France.