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women employed ww1?
1914= 5.96 million, 1918= 7.31 m (1/3 of workforce)
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auxiallary armed forces ?
women's royal naval service, vollunteery aid detachment (medical uk an abroad)
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payment?
high demand for women labour so wages go up
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impact of war on womens rights?
hard to deny vote, pass 1918 representation of the peoples act
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issue?
not on same terms as men
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reasons for?
fear female supremacy in voting numbers, displays male attitudes still achaic
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1919 sex disqualification acT?
allowed owmen to serve on jurys, magistrate
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oxford uni 1920?
award women degrees for first time
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1928 equal franchise act?
get vote on same basis as men
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first female mp?
lady astor 1919
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first female minister?
margaret bondfield labour 1929
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the matrimonial causes act 1923?
equal rights to divorce for adultery
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extension of this?
could divorce for cruelty desertion and insanity too
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1925 and children?
ewual custordy rights to husbands after divorce
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family planning assoscition 1930?
gave women access to greater contraception
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types of unemployment?
strucutral in staple industries as other countries catch up
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cause for inemployment?
technology improvements mean less workers needed
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1919-39 uninsured workers unemploymetn avg?
14%
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rowntree 1936 york survey?
17.7% povo
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causes?
largerst low wages, then unemploymetn and old age
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what does this show?
old age pension 1908 insufficnet and possibly national insurance 1911
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real wages 1930-38?
7.7% increase
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percentage of £ spent on food and rent 1914-1938?
14= 76% 38= 44%
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1938 cinema tickets sold?
1 billion
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how many seaside holiday 1938?
20 million
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infant mortality per 1000 birhts 1930-1940?
1930= 67 1940= 61
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downsides of health?
no NHS
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regional divisions?
north suffer more from structura unemployment due to relince on coal etc
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example?
Jarrow, palmers shipyard collapsed= 72% unemployed 1933
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when was BBC founded?
1922
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1939 liscense holders?
9 million
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labour newspaper ?
daily herald
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1933 circulation?
first to reach 2m
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