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World War I Practice Test: Role Of The Fairer Sex - Women Working And Helping
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Before the World War One, women were restricted in their employment opportunities.  Many jobs were forbidden to women, their pay was much less than that of men and they were not entitled to vote.  By the war's end life had improved somewhat, but there was still a long way to go before women and men would be considered as equals.

World War I Practice Test: Role Of The Fairer Sex - Women Working And Helping
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1. Dorothy Lawrence impersonated a man so that she could serve as a soldier. What became of her when her true identity was discovered?
2. Many thousands of women served in the war zone as nurses. One British lady, Edith Cavell, worked as a nurse in Belgium at the start of the war after the Germans had invaded. She was executed on 12th October 1915 by the Germans, on what charge?
3. Dorothy Lawrence impersonated a man so that she could serve as a soldier. What became of her when her true identity was discovered?
4. Working in munitions factories could be dangerous to women's health. Exposure to chemicals often turned women's skin yellow, earning them what nickname?
5. As men left home to fight in the war, women were needed to replace them. How many women joined the labour-force during the war?
6. As well as working as nurses and teachers, women took up work in traditionally masculine jobs. In what area did the largest proportion work?
7. In the decades before the war the Suffragette Movement was campaigning to get votes for women. What did they do at the outbreak of war?
8. Women were finally given the vote in the first general election to be held after the war, but not all of them. What age must a woman have reached in order to vote?
9. The move of women into manual work saw the virtual end of which occupation, a major source of employment for women prior to the war?
10. When men returned home from the battlefield after the war, what new cause did women have to protest?

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