article_snippet: So it was down to more than 600,000 women to take on roles in mills, laboratories and factories to help the First World War effort on the Home Front.
article_snippet: And these photographs show women munitions workers making shells and fuses for the first time in a Greater Manchester factory in 1915.
article_snippet: Women munitions workers began making shells and fuses for the first time in this factory in Oldham, Greater Manchester, in 1915 .
article_snippet: Many firms in the North West and elsewhere converted to start making munitions in World War, with women now working alongside men in these jobs.
article_snippet: It was her job to recruit new female workers at the factory, where there were more than 1,000 women working by the end of World War in 1918.
article_snippet: Many companies  converted to start making munitions during World War, with women now working alongside men in these jobs .
article_snippet: More than 600,000 women became employed in munitions factories and performed other roles such as working as bus conductors or farm hands.
highlights_snippet: 600,000 women took on roles in mills, laboratories and factories to help First World War effort on Home Front .
  
highlights_snippet: 1,000 of these were working at Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti in Oldham, Greater Manchester, by end of war in 1918 .
  