Women and the war

In Greetland and West Vale the ladies of the Red Cross Committee were busy preparing for the inevitable influx of casualties from the front into the district. The war gave an impetus for women to become involved in constructive activity, for many of them for the first time in their lives. The class system and the traditional male dominance of society 100 years ago meant that the talents and potential of the female 50 per cent of the pop-