International Women's Day Timeline: Women take to the streets demanding to be part of war effort 1914-18

Women, some dressed in costumes, and carrying banners take to the streets in the rain in their bid to be included in the war effort.

Men dressed in uniform also joined the march in a sign of solidarity as crowds line the streets.

Although the feminist movement and the call for universal suffrage was a prominent debate, World War One did much to change people's attitudes regarding women and their place in society.

With so many men called up to serve in the Armed Forces an estimated two million women took over their roles in the work place during 1914-1918.

Previously, women had typically taken employment in the domestic service but during the conflict they were able to work in industries typically reserved for men.

Women worked in munitions factories, as conductors on buses and trains, worked on farms (popularly known as the Women's Land Army) and joined the civil service. Their work made them a valuable and integral asset to British home life during the war.

[Related: Suffragette rally in Trafalgar Square, 1915]

After the war women returned back to home life and although women over 30 were granted the vote in 1918, their role in public life had not dramatically changed.

It would take another world war, legislation to extend women’s vote and many more decades before women were considered equal in all areas of society.