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APPENDIX 2

Employment of Women - 1881 - 1941

In 1881 there were 3,887,000 women recorded as “occupied” by the Census. In subsequent years the figures were as follows:

During all these years the population of Great Britain was increasing fairly rapidly, and much of the increase of the number of women in employment was only in step with the all round expansion of industry. Whereas the number of men seeking employment increased proportionately to the number of men in the population, however, this was not the case with the women, presumably because all men who could do so sought work of necessity, while women sought work only when the economic position prevailing made it necessary for them to do so and when technological advances opened up fresh avenues for them.

The proportionate increases of one decade over the last was as follows:

Proportionate increases of Women in Employment, 1881 – 1931

The average increase over the last two decades was 440,000. Allowing for a 5% fall in the rate of increase 1931 - 1941, as seems possible in view of previous figures, one might have expected a total of 6,625,000 women in employment, or seeking employment in 1941, and about 6,700,000 in 1943. The official estimate for 1943 saw 7,500,000. The increase over the number expected, due principally to war conditions, was, therefore, approximately 800,000.

WARTIME SOCIAL SURVEY WOMEN AT WORK New Series Regional I.3

Town Interviewer:

Region 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Education

Where Living

Housewife

Husband’s/Father’s Occupation on

Full-time Worker Y

Part-time Worker X

N.A. 0

1. What exactly is your job?

2. What kind of training have you had for It?

Type For how long?

Govt. Training Centre

Emer. Training Centre

Works/Shop Training

School or College

University

Others

Specify Others

3. What other jobs have you done since leaving school?

4. What did you do just before the war?

4(A).(i) If Different, say what

(ii) What kind of training did you have for It?

(iii) Did you choose that particular

job or did you have to take it?

If Choice, why did you choose It?

(iv) Which job (inc, present job) did you like best of all?

Why?

(v) If Present Job Preferred stay in It?

Would you like to stay in it?

(vi) If Another Job Preferred

Would you like to

4 (B). If HOME

(i) Had you ever had a job before?

(ii) If NO , had you any intention of getting a job eventually?

(iii) If NO, or D. K . what made you do so?

(iv) If YES , what was the last job you had?

(v) What kind of training did you have for it?

(vi) Did you choose that particular job or did you have to take it?

If Choice, why did you choose it?

(vii) Which job (inc. present job) did you like best of all?

Why?

(viii) If Present Job

Would you like to stay in it?

(ix) If Another Job

Would you like to go back to it?

(x) Had you any intention of coming back to work?

(xi) If NO or D.K, to (x) what made you do so?

4(c). If SCHOOL

(i) Had you any intention of getting a job eventually?

(ii) If NO or D.K. what made you do so?

TO ALL

5. Were you directed into your present job or did you try for the job yourself?

(ii) If Directed: Given free choice would you have taken up the kind of job you are doing now or another kind, or no job at all?

(iia) If Other

What kind

(iii) If Given Choice is several: Why did you chose this?

(iv) If Tried for job: Why this one?

6. Do you want to go on working after the war?

Comment

If so what do you intend to do?

Full or

Part-time

Not at all. Why not?

If not what do you think might prevent you?

Possible

May Way

Don't know

Any Comments

7. What do you think about working after marriage?

8. What do you think are the advantages of work to a women like yourself?

9. What do you think are the disadvantages?

10. If a job is open to both a man and a woman do you think it ought to go to the man anyway, or do you think it should depend on who is best at it?

Comments

11. Do you work with men at your job?

12. How do you think man and women get on when working together?

TO WOMEN WITH CHILDREN UNDER 14

What happens to the Under 14’s while you are at work?

A .........

B .........

C .........

D .........

E .........

Are you satisfied with this arrangement?

Is this arrangement Permanent or Temporary? If Temporary why?

Have you had any other children?

GENERAL ATTITUDE OF INTERVIEWERS TOWARDS PROBLEMS INVOLVED IN QUESTIONNAIRE and any special circumstances which might influence answers:

WARTIME SOCIAL SURVEY

INVESTIGATORS

Miss V. Barker

Mrs. D. Bompas

Mrs. A. M Caddy

Mrs. L. Cowne

Mrs. K. Edwards

Miss K. Freemantle

Mrs. M. Goalen

Miss H. Hounsfield

Miss M. K. Hussey

Dr. C. Maule

Miss L. McVail

Mrs. G. Knox

Miss M. Mulvey

Mrs. E. J. Nash

Mrs. E. Pamely-Evans

Miss A. Reynolds

Miss M. Roe

Miss E. Sunderland

Miss E. Swindlehurst

Mrs. M. Thomas

Miss F. M. Webber

Miss E. Bedell

Miss D. Behenna

Miss L. Bell

Miss M. Braithwaite

Mrs. M. Charleston-Rae

Mrs. E. Croft-White

Mrs. M. Folker

Miss B. Foster-Sutton

Miss R. Frost

Miss H. Gaskell

Miss B. Hague

Miss M. C. Hetherington

Mrs. L. Hodder

Miss G. A Jackson

Miss K. Kidner

Mrs. H. M. Lawrence

Mrs. B. Mapother

Miss A. McCulloch

Mrs. A. Morris

Miss L. Morris

Mrs. I. 0’Kelly

Miss I. Penston

Miss B. Phillips

Mrs. M. Pursey

Miss M. Pye

Miss G. Rawdon-Smith

Mrs. M. Trinick

Miss G. Tuffley

Miss A. Ziegler

Mrs. J. Worrall

Miss M. Howarth