What did you do in the Great War mummy?

This is a pertinent question when considering WW1 as before this date most women worked - In Service either in large country houses or in London and other major cities. From 1914 onward their brains and brawn were needed in a vast variety of industries and professions from such things as: munitions, farm larourers, nurses, doctors and many other besides. This change in role for what was known as 'the duration' had a marked influence on society. Emily Pankhurst the leader of the Suffragettes used this opportunity wisely and dropped their civil disobedience for the duration of the war. Any change in the status quo was always going to be problematic after the war, as men will not change unless required to do so by an 'irresistible force'. However this new found confidence from their part in the war effort stood them in good stead for post-war civil conflict. Then in 1918 the Representation of the People Act was passed into law with a massive majority in parliament and this gave women the vote, albeit with a limited mandate. This act is sometimes referred to as the Fourth Reform Act.
So what you  did in the war mummy has had a profound influence on society that still reverberates down the ages. See all this history well played out on BBC Two in Kate Adie's Women of World War One.