Timeline of women's freedoms

Question 1

1910

Answer 1

1918 rep of people act

Women worked in munitions factories but replaced when men return from war

1918 educational act gave women education until the age of 14

Sexual disqualification removal act 1919

Question 2

1920

Answer 2

1928 rep of people act

New fashions and hairstyles

Question 3

1930s

Answer 3

Handful of women’s MPS

Depression means women encouraged back into their homes

Marriage bar introduced 1932 from teachers and BBC workers

Matrimonial clause bill 1937 makes divorce easier

Question 4

1940s

Answer 4

By 1943 7.35 million employed

Women’s land army, air transport auxiliary

Introduced to welfare state and NHS

Question 5

1950s

Answer 5

Decade of domesticity

Lives revolved around home and family

First women managing director and tv news readers

Question 6

1960s

Answer 6

Swinging sixties

1961 sale of birth control pill

1968 workers strike at Dagenham ford strike

1967 abortion legislation/ divorce reform act

Question 7

1970s

Answer 7

Sex discrimination 1975

Equal pay 1970