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Women Working in Woolwich Arsenal Factory in WW1

This photograph shows women at work making armaments in a munitions factory during WW1. With men away at war, women filled the labour shortage, competently doing all kinds of jobs they had previously been denied access to.

Image: Imperial War Museum. | Public Domain | via Wikimedia Commons