Women At Work During The First World War: Munitions Production, Chilwell, Nottinghamshire, England, UK, c [Getty Images]

Women At Work During The First World War: Munitions Production, Chilwell, Nottinghamshire, England, UK, c. 1917, Two women munitions workers stand beside examples of the shells produced at National Shell Filling Factory No.6, Chillwell, Nottinghamshire during the First World War, circa 1917. (Photo by Horace Nicholls/ Imperial War Museums via Getty Images)

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