1 July	The Women's Land Army is formed.
	1 September	Mass evacuation from towns and cities starts. The WVS assists with the evacuation.
	2 September	National Service (Armed Forces) Act is passed. All men aged 18-41 can be called-up.
	December	Over 1.5 million have volunteered for the Civil Defence.
	January	The lack of bombing raids means that two-fifths of evacuees have returned home.
	June	Over 5 million women are now in employment.
	September	The first women are trained to work on anti-aircraft guns.
	7 September	The beginning of the Blitz prompts mass evacuation of women and children from cities and towns.
		Food shortages are at their worst in 1941.
	April	Women start to be trained to use searchlights.
	18 December	The National Service (No. 2) Act is passed, allowing conscription of unmarried women aged 20 to 30 years into the armed forces or into vital war work.
	Spring	Conscription is extended to 19 year old women.
	September	Up to the end of this month, more women and children were killed in the war than soldiers.
		9 single women out of 10 and 8 married women out of 10, aged between 18 and 40 are now in the armed forces or in industry.
		7.5 million women are in employment.
		Almost 70% of food is now home produced.
		By the end of 1943 nearly two million women are in trade unions - double the pre-war total.
		The number of women in the Land Army reaches 80,000.
		The claims by women teachers for equal pay is rejected by Winston Churchill.
		The average pay for women in engineering is half that for men performing the same work.
	June	Factory production is at its highest this month.
		The number of women in the armed forces reaches over 450,000.
		By the end of the war, 624 women had been killed on active duty. In comparison, some 260,000 men were killed during the war.
	1946	A Royal Commission supports equal pay for women but the government does not pass any laws to introduce change.
	1950	The Women's Land Army is disbanded.