Women

Question 1

Number of women deputies in Reichstag 1926

Answer 1

32

Question 2

BDF membership

Answer 2

900,000 members by 1929
Most were middle class

Question 3

DNP and DNVP woman support

Answer 3

1/3 of women’s vote in 1924

Question 4

Kinder, Kuche, Kirche

Answer 4

Children, Kitchen, Church

Question 5

% of domestic shopping done by women

Answer 5

80%

Question 6

Interest free loans made available to women who left work

Answer 6

RM600 in June 1933

Question 7

Birth rate increase

Answer 7

1930s
Not a response to Nazi policy

Question 8

Law for Encouragement of Marriage

Answer 8

July 1933
RM1000 loan provided to newly married couples
1/4 of loan written off after birth of a child

Question 9

SS officers could only marry women who completed course at Reich Bride School

Answer 9

1936

Question 10

Proportion of women in workforce rise during war

Answer 10

1/3 to just over 1/2

Question 11

% of women involved in farm work

Answer 11

55% in 1939
67% in 1944

Question 12

Number of women who worked regularly on farms

Answer 12

6 million
additional 950,000 during harvests

Question 13

Death rates among children of foreign workers

Answer 13

as high as 90%

Question 14

Orders issues that unfaithful women could be sent to CC

Answer 14

from 1940

Question 15

% of women in Bundestag

Answer 15

5.8% in 1972
15.4% in 1987

Question 16

Increase of women in work due to economic miracle

Answer 16

44.4% to 50% 1950-70

Question 17

Poll supporting law banning mothers w/ children under 10 from working

Answer 17

1963
59% of males and females

Question 18

% of women workforce in hospitals

Answer 18

75%
Only 4% were physicians

Question 19

% of women as teachers

Answer 19

50%
Less than 20% were principles

Question 20

% of women as Uni profs by 1980s

Answer 20

5%

Question 21

Women salaries vs Men salaries in 1970s

Answer 21

65-78% for same job

Question 22

Divorce rate increase 1960-90

Answer 22

49,000 to 123,000

Question 23

No guilt divorce law

Answer 23

1977
Granted divorces for marriages that had simply broken down

Question 24

Abortions 1971

Answer 24

1 million illegal abortions per year

Question 25

Indication Law

Answer 25

1976
Allowed abortions within first 12 weeks of pregnancy

Question 26

Birth control pill

Answer 26

1961