[8] The CCWE aimed to provide employment for women, especially those who had become unemployed or displaced due to the First World War.

[2] In 1914, the minimum rate for women to be paid for relief work was 3d per hour, up to a maximum of 10/- including housing allowance.

[13] Courses that trained women in midwifery, hairdressing, massage, teaching, as well as domestic work, ended in 1922 when funding ran out.

[14] Using funding from the Empire Settlement Act 1922, the CCWTE set up a home training centre in Market Harborough,[15] and later set up home training centres in Glasgow, Harrogate, Newcastle, Leamington Spa, and London.

[11] In 1915, an Irish Central Committee for the Employment of Women (CCEW) was created, to serve a similar purpose in Ireland.