Source A By 1943 0.5 million women were in the services
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Women were successfully conscripted (officially from December 1941) into assisting the war effort and entered industries where before only men had worked (e.g. shipbuilding and steel works). Furthermore, by 1943 7.2 million women were in paid employment, 0.5 million women were in the services (e.g. WRENS, WAAF, ATS) and 0.35 million in civil defence (e.g. air raid precautions, fire fighting, nursing).
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