Britain - Women
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- Created on: 27-04-16 18:23
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- Women
- During WW2
- Women had jobs such as:
- The Woman's Voluntary Service: where women aided firefighters and collected scrap metal to repair damaged houses.
- Factories: created ammunition for £2.15 an hour.
- The Women's Auxiliary Air Force: Women fixed aeroplanes and radar stations to keep the war effort going.
- Secret Agents: Women worked as secret agents and spies, often used "special female" skills to get information out of German men.
- War Contribution: At the end of the war in 1945 there were 460,000 women in the military and over 6.5 million in civilian work,
- The Auxiliary Territorial Service: Women wore green uniforms like men and were drivers and handymen to support the men fighting.
- Women had jobs such as:
- Early 1950s
- 36% of women worked.
- Women should leave their job once they got married.
- The whole Beveridge Report was based on the assumption that only the man would be in work.
- Heavy industry was only looking for male employees.
- Hard to get promoted.
- Got paid less than men for doing the same job.
- Women earned 42% of a man's wage.
- Day-to-day life
- On average women spent 8 hours a day on housework.
- Women had very little leisure time.
- Contraception wasn't available so many women got pregnant often.
- Unmarried woman were expected to save sex until marriage.
- The Divorce Law was biased towards men and so women found it hard to get out of failed or violent marriages.
- What changed for women?
- Welfare State
- NHS, National Insurance, new houses and education.
- Prosperity
- The economy got better after the war due to Marshall Aid and so families had more money.
- Technology
- Domestic products reduced to the time women were spending on housework.
- Work
- Ideas on women working were increasing and so women had the in-dependence of working.
- Media
- Magazines for women, the TV in the 1960s and women gained role-models to aspire to.
- Choice
- Contraception - 1961 Abortion and Divorce
- After 1965 the birth rate fell dramatically and fell from 6,8,10 to 2,3,4
- Abortion was made legal in 1967 by the Women's Liberation Movement. IF the woman gained the agreement of two doctors.
- Divorce was passed by parliament in 1969 on the grounds on a broken relationship and no evidence was needed as was previous.
- The Matrimonial Property Act was also passed, giving women a share of the assets built up during a marriage.
- Welfare State
- Women's movement
- Campaigning for equal rights boomed due to feminists in the USA and thus used the new technology to raise awareness of their cause.
- Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)
- The Female ******.
- This led to the Women's Liberation Movement which was launched in 1970. They demanded they have:
- Equal Pay
- Equal education and opportunities
- 24-hour nurseries
- Free contraception and abortion on demand
- Campaigning for equal rights boomed due to feminists in the USA and thus used the new technology to raise awareness of their cause.
- During WW2
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