Statistics on Women Workers

From the Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 18th February 1918. 

MORE WOMEN WORKERS.

The official “Labour Gazette” states that it is calculated that 700,000 women are now employed on munitions work and 650,000 on other industrial Government work.  There are now 40,000 engaged on work for the Government in commercial occupations and transport.  Over 1,413,000 men have been directly replaced by women.