Women's Suffrage: Women's Roles
During the 1910s, women entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers. Particularly during World War I, women took on “men’s” positions in the home and the workplace. The gender role expectations of the Victorian era, however, still remained in place. Particularly for middle-class women, like the ones who made up the vast majority of the suffragists, maintaining standards in the domestic sphere was assumed to be a primary responsibility.