Women

Question 1

What was the National Civil Code?

Kaiser Reich - Women

Answer 1

Legalised the lower status of women and asserted that men had authority in all matters relating to his family’s children

Question 2

How many weeks were women given for maternity leave?

Kaiser Reich - Women

Answer 2

6 weeks and an 11hr working day

Question 3

What did Emma Iher do in 1885 relating to doctors and lawyers?

(Kaiser Reich - Women)

Answer 3

She established the ‘Society of the Protection of Women Workers’, which helped to support working women by providing lawyers and doctors for free

Question 4

How many members did the ‘Society of the Protection of Women Workers’ by 1886 when the government banned it?

(Kaiser Reich - Women)

Answer 4

1,000

Question 5

Which party challenged discrimination against women and campaigned for women’s right to vote?

(Kaiser Reich - Women)

Answer 5

SPD

Question 6

What did the shortage of male workers mean for women?

Weimar - Women

Answer 6

Women began working in areas previously forbidden such as heavy industry including chemicals, iron, steel and engineering

Question 7

What % did women make up the new Weimar Parliament from 1919 representing a high point for female membership since the % hovered around what?

(Weimar - Women)

Answer 7

9.6% women made up of Parliament 1919 compared to hovering around 6-7%

Question 8

How much had the membership grown by from 1914 to 1920s for BDF (organisation for women’s civil rights feminist movement)?

(Weimar - Women)

Answer 8

300,000 to 900,000

Question 9

What were ‘Weimar Women’?

Weimar - Women

Answer 9

Often urbanised, financially independent, single, sexually active, followed US fashion

Question 10

What is fair to say for women during the Weimar period?

Weimar - Women

Answer 10

Changes for women affected a relatively small fraction of the female population

Question 11

From 1933, the Nazis introduced a number of policies that affected women, name some?

(Nazi - Women)

Answer 11

All female working groups were banned, they were banned from government employment and practising medicine and law

Question 12

What percentage of university places could be reserved for women and what was the percentage prior to this?

(Nazi - Women)

Answer 12

10% and prior to this women made up 20% of university students

Question 13

When did the Nazis introduce the Lebensborn programme and what was the impact?

(Nazi - Women)

Answer 13

• 1935
• provide an adoption service for racially pure, unmarried mothers to give up the children to SS officers families so they could be raised by racially pure parents

Question 14

By 1939 women made up what percentage of the workforce compare to 1933?

(Nazi - Women)

Answer 14

1933- 37%
1939- 33%
Striking given Nazi polices (still relatively high for Nazi period)

Question 15

More work was available for women during the Second World War and in 1943 how many women aged 17-45 were conscripted to work?

(Nazi - Women)

Answer 15

3 million

Question 16

What percentage of female membership made up of political parties?

(West Germany - Women)

Answer 16

4.4%

Question 17

What legal concept were wives given in 1957 and what then happens in 1959?

(West Germany - Women)

Answer 17

Wives given legal equality with their husbands and by 1959, the father’s complete authority over matters relating to the family’s children were removed

Question 18

By 1980 what % had women made up the workforce?

West Germany - Women

Answer 18

39% despite an economic boom, a figure of 6% above Nazi Germany and 2% higher than Weimar Germany

Question 19

By the early 1980s firm admissions to university matched the number of men applying for the first time. What % of university students were women by 1989?

(West Germany - Women)

Answer 19

41%