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Women planting potatoes at a farm near Rye in Sussex, circa 1916. They are replacing male farm workers, who have left to serve in World War I. (Photo by Paul Thompson/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Women planting potatoes at a farm near Rye in Sussex, circa 1916. They are replacing male farm workers, who have left to serve in World War I.  (Photo by Paul Thompson/Archive Photos/Getty Images)