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Description: | Two rail women pose in uniform on the platform. The semaphore signal in the background is signalling the trains to stop.
The Underground group was the first company to employ women. From March 1915, it had a policy of employing 'women substitutes'. Women were recruited to fill those jobs traditionally held by male employees who had been called up to fight in the First World War.
The public encountered women working on the trains or the buses on a daily basis. These women were the most visible example of how women had entered the workplace. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | London at War Work | Temporal: | 1915-1919 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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