Women's work in WW1. During WWI (1914-1918), large numbers of women were recruited into jobs vacated by men who had gone to fight in the war. New jobs were also created as part of the war effort, for example in munitions factories.
George Washinton is the anwser.
Rationalism led to the use of empiricism, or observation, in science. Francis Bacon invented the scientific method based on rationalism. It also lessened overbearing religious dogma
It reduced the labor of removing seeds