Jobs for women In The WW2

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Jobs for women In The WW2
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Women were required by the government to
work. At first, only single women aged 20-30
were called up, but by mid-1943, almost 90 per
cent of single women and 80 per cent of married
women were working in factories, on the land or
in the armed forces. Huge numbers of women
were involved in the war effort and many joined
the armed forces even though they did not have
to 640,000 in the armed forces 55,000
serving with guns and providing essential air
defence 80,000 thousand in the Land Army plus
many more who flew unarmed aircraft, drove
ambulances, worked as nurses and worked behind
enemy lines in the European resistance.
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Jobs undertaken by women during the war included

• mechanics
• engineers
• Tank drivers
• Building ships
• Working in factories - making bombs and aircraft
  parts
• Air raid wardens
• Driving fire engines
• Plumbers
• Ambulance drivers
• WRVS volunteers
• Nurses

The women earned 1,85 for a working week with a
minimum of 50 hours. In 1944 the wages were
increased to 2.85.
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Ploughing the fields
The girls of the land army looked after animals,
ploughed the fields, dug up potatoes, harvested
the crops, killed the rats, dug and hoed for 48
hours a week in the winter and 50 hours a week in
the summer. As there was not enough machinery to
go round they often had to work with old
fashioned equipment, such as horse drawn hand
ploughs, and to harvest crops by hand.
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Aircraft
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Auxiliary corps
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W A A F Woman's air force
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Women down trenches
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Engineers
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Factory workers