Many women became single heads of household and supported the war in unprecedented numbers, not only in Britain, but all around the world in war. They served directly on the battle front (as nurses, drivers, cooks) or on the homefront executing jobs traditionally considered for men much like the munitionettes did.

But when the War was over, men came back home and  the factories switched to peacetime production, then thousands of women were dismissed from their jobs.

Although with some regressions in the aftermath of the War, the conflict has transformed women´s life in many ways.

“The fact that I am using my life’s energy to destroy human souls gets on my nerves.” She was proud that she was “doing what I can to bring this horrible affair to an end. But once the war is over, never in creation will I do the same thing again.”

~ Words of a woman writing for the magazine of a projectile factory.

 Quoted at http://hankeringforhistory.com/munitionettes-the-great-war-the-great-change/