At the outbreak of World War One around a million workers - mostly women - flocked to jobs in munitions factories such as Nobel's TNT plant in Pembrey. The pay and hours were better than in ...

Far away from the frontline, many of World War One's victims were women. Wives, girlfriends, mothers and sisters of troops often found themselves in high risk jobs at munitions factories, which ...

Between 1940 and 1945, the proportion of women in the U.S. workforce increased from 27 per cent to nearly 37 per cent. By the end of the war, nearly one in four married women worked outside the home.