How would gender equality in WWI have affected UK population?

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The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 seems to reflect the kind of data you are looking for. The deaths would not be strongly gender related, and the time frame coincides generally with the time frame of your theoretical query. The deaths in England specifically are discussed at Historic UK:

During the pandemic of 1918/19, over 50 million people died worldwide and a quarter of the British population were affected. The death toll was 228,000 in Britain alone. Global mortality rate is not known, but is estimated to have been between 10% to 20% of those who were infected.

Other nations which were less involved in WWI but more involved in the pandemic may be able to provide you with an idea of how a population recovers after losing a more gender balanced population percentage. This historical demographics page lists the 1907 population of the United Kingdom as 39,700,000 which means the WWI deaths accounted for about 1.76% of the population. An abstract for a study, Mortality burden of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic in Europe gives an estimate of 1.1% of the European population, so percentages are similar to the losses suffered by Great Britain due to the war, and may be applicable to your query.

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