Women's work during the First World War Source A is a letter written long after the war in 1976 by a woman who lived through the First World War. Therefore this source may prove to be inaccurate as it was written 58 years later. Source A is a positive source to show comparisons between domestic service and war work. From this source you can find that there was a huge difference in wages; in domestic service women were lucky if they earned £2 a month and worked long hours. However, when women worked in the war cutting fuses by hand, they wanted up to £5 a week. Women found this salary notable and this made them wealthy. From Source A we can find that women who worked in domestic service were desperate to "get out" and leave due to the terrible conditions and the fact that they were considered second class citizens and could not do men's jobs, so when the need for war workers, mostly women were happy to go. Question 02; Study sources A, B and C, and does the evidence from source C support the evidence from sources A and B on women's work during the First World War? Source A is a positive source to show the comparisons between women who worked in domestic service and women who worked during the war cutting fuses. It was written by a woman who lived and worked during the First World War, and this may prove its accuracy. Source B is part of a book written by Sylvia Pankhurst: a former suffragette leader in 1932. Therefore this source may prove to be inaccurate. Source B contains negative information about women who work in an aircraft factory in London and paint aircraft wings. Located in the center of the card, an Aganda poster produced in 1916. It is useful because it shows the methods used by the government to get women to work. This also demonstrates the fact that women were considered important by the government in the war effort. However, due to the fact that this propaganda; not all women would have been considered important during the First World War. This propaganda poster is based on women's guilt because on the poster there is a man saluting his wife as he goes to war. The woman in the poster wears overalls and goes to work in munitions factories. This makes women feel that they should do their part for the war effort and help support their country. Although this source is government propaganda and may be considered unreliable, it is still useful in showing what propaganda was like during World War I.