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?

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.