Equality

Question 1

When was the Fawcett society’s first petition?

Answer 1

1866

Question 2

What are the seven strands of gender equality?

Answer 2

Reproductive rights and sexual health
Violence against women
Home and Family
Education
Work
Women at the top
Political representation

Question 3

When could men and women inherit property equally?

Answer 3

1925

Question 4

What did women’s employment rise to in WW1?

Answer 4

46.7%

Question 5

in 1971, how long on average did a dad spend caring for their child a day?

Answer 5

15 minutes

Question 6

When was abortion outlawed

Answer 6

1861

Question 7

When was the child benefit introduced and how much was it?

Answer 7

5 shillings a week per child

1945

Question 8

When could gay, lesbian or unmarried couples adopt?

Answer 8

2002

Question 9

When could women sit in the house of lords?

Answer 9

1958

Question 10

How many women went on strike in 1888 and against what?

Answer 10

1400, against poor working conditions

Question 11

Who was the first female, asian mayor

Answer 11

Harbhajan Kaur Deer

Question 12

What is a disability?

Answer 12

a physical or mental impairement that has a substantial, long term effect on your ability to carry out normal day to day activities

Question 13

What is eugenics?

Answer 13

a social theory that aimed to cut out disability by limiting people with those traits from reproducing

Question 14

What is involuntary euthanasia

Answer 14

intentionally ending someones life without their consent to relieve pain and suffering

Question 15

What happened in 1930s germany

Answer 15

The nazis began a programme of mass involuntary euthaniasia, which reulted in the murder of 300,000 and forced sterilization of 400,000 more

Question 16

What was operation t4

Answer 16

mass murder, including murder of 5000 disabled children

Question 17

What happend to disabled people in the early 20th century

Answer 17

they were segregated from the rest of society and sent to a specialist school. It was assumed that they woulnt finmd a job

Question 18

Who was ruth moore

Answer 18

a diabled person who said that she 
was treatd like an object
had to eat her own sick
could oly wear pants, mcouldnt tak
move hear head 

2/3 of the children there died

Question 19

why did attitudes to disabilities change?

Answer 19

many injured soldiers returned after the war with disabilities who had fought for britain so the government helped the disabled

Question 20

who was ludwig guttman

Answer 20

the guyt who made the paralympic

Question 21

when was the disability discrimination act made and why

Answer 21

1995 after thousantds of protestors “pissed on pity”

Question 22

what did the 1995 act do?

Answer 22

made it “unlawful to discriminate against disabled persons in realtion to employmet…”

Question 23

When did the empire windrush arrive in London?

Answer 23

1948

Question 24

How many people arrived between 1948 and 1970

Answer 24

half a milllion

Question 25

name some people from the windrush

Answer 25

Harold Wilmot

Alford Gardner

Question 26

Why did the british government ask the windrush people to come over?

Answer 26

there were a lot of job vacancies after ww2