Weimar Republic Golden Years - Women - Mindmap in A Level and IB History

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Employment
- Women were paid considerably less than men.
- Many had to leave their job for marriage.
- De-mobalisation laws required women to leave their jobs for ex-soldiers
- Blamed for male un-employment.
- Lack of improvement for women
  - Sexual freedom
    - Abortion became a crime.
    - Declining birth rate was attacked by conservative press saying it threatened the health of the nation.
Individuals
- Women's suffrage in 1919 didn't bring equality.
- Paula Muller-Ofried - opposed woman's suffrage, warning it wouldn't improve women's lives.
- Lack of improvement for women
  - Sexual freedom
    - Abortion became a crime.
    - Declining birth rate was attacked by conservative press saying it threatened the health of the nation.
Politics and public freedom
- Few parties supported feminist issues.
- No female representatives in the Reichstag
- Only communists made gender equality a key point in their aims.
- No women became cabinet members and no political party had a female leader.
Catholic and Protestant churches opposed birth control, divorce and abortion.

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