Below are listed some of the jobs women did in the First World War that had previously been done mostly by men:
- Police force
- Postal workers
- Bus conductors
- Railway workers
- Delivery van drivers
- Farming
- Forestry workers
- Munitions workers – including tailoring, metal trades, chemical and explosives, food trades, hosiery and woollen and worsted industries
- Engineering workers
- Coal industry workers
- Nurses
- Ambulance drivers
- Ship building workers