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· Both the suffragettes and the suffragists ceased their campaigns in order to help the war effort. · Factories short of workers - absence of young men so women stepped in to cover the traditionally male jobs. Previously, many women worked in domestic services / didn't work. · By the end of the war, the number of women working in domestic services had decreased, and the number of women working other factory jobs had greatly increased - especially the number of women working in munitions. · Conditions - often dusty and cramped, Sylvia Pankhurst spoke of the "horrid atmosphere" in the workshops. · Women working with explosives were affected - coughs, swellings, burns. · Some worked from 8am to 6:30pm, very often working overtime that they were only paid bare time wages for. · At first, men in factories were hostile towards women - women were cheaper to employ meaning employers would hire women over men, to save money. · Men sometimes didn't teach them how to use the machinery properly - thought women were unsuitable for the job, and resented them.

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