| Abstrakt: |
The article discusses the effect of World War I on the employment of women, and on Victorian middle class notions of feminine respectability, in England. Women's employment in prewar England, mainly as unskilled laborers, is discussed, as is the more skilled war work they performed, and their large-scale departure from the labor force after the war. Also discussed are labor statistics from 1921 indicating a small but significant expansion of employment opportunities for British women, in such areas as clerical work, the clothing trade, and domestic occupations. |
