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Women Flashcards

1
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How did the Beveridge report help women?

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Family allowance
National insurance act
NHS
Housing Act

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2
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How did the NHS help and what year

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1946

Lower infant mortality and pregnancy care/ post pregnancy care

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3
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How did the family allowance help and what year

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1945

5 shillings a week per child

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4
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How did the national insurance act help women and what year

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1946

Benefits for the unemployed and sick workers - husbands

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5
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How did the housing act help and what year

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1949

Electricity and water in new houses reduced back breaking work of getting water and coal

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6
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When were women conscripted?

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1941

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7
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How many married female workers in 1945?

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80%

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8
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How many single women working in 1945)

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90%

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9
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How did gov support women working in 1940s

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Nurseries and school open late
Jobs shares
Groceries to factories 
Schools 
Flexible working hours 
Propaganda
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10
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Negatives of women in the 1940s

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3 women to 1 mans job
Seen as helpers on the auxiliary
Didn't recurve bonuses 
Men took jobs back
Juggling children housework and work
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11
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How many married women working in the 1930s

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10%

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12
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How did women’s attitudes of themselves change in the 1940s

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Had higher expectations of what they could achieve

Wanted a more equal partnership with husbands

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13
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How many hours did women spend on housework in the 1950s

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8 hours

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14
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How did advertisers picture women in the 50s

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Perfect housewives which put pressure on them

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15
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When was prosperity

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1955

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16
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How did prosperity help women

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Easy to get a job because of shortage 
Higher wages 
Lower prices 
Working week back to 5 days 
More leisure time 
Rationing stopped
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17
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Why did women struggle on relationships

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Abortions illegal
20,000 back street abortions a year
Couldn't get out a violent marriage unless caught cheating 
No family planning 
No contraception
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18
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How were women discriminated against in the 50s/60s

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Trade unions liked them because could pay them less 
We're resented by male workers 
Given lower pay and power status jobs 
Given jobs such a secretaries
Didn't get promoted
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19
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When did Barbara castle become minister of labour

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??

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20
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When did Barbara castles voluntary scheme fail

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21
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When were Dagenham strikes

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1968

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22
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When was the equal pay in the public sector

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1955 but was phased over next 6 years

23
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How many single workers in 1951

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36%

24
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How many married working in 1951

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26%

25
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How many married working in 1971

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49%

26
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How many single working in 1971?

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52%

27
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When did the marriage bar begin to collapse

A

1950s

28
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When was the equal pay act

A

1970

29
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Weaknesses of the equal pay act

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Wasn’t enforced until 1975
Could discriminate o. Other ground
Didn’t consider promotions

30
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When was the baby boom

A

Late 1950s and 1965

31
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When did marriage occur earlier

A

50s&60s

32
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When was the national women’s conference

A

1970

33
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4 agreements at the conference

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Equal opportunities
Free contraception and abortion on demand
24 hour nurseries
Equal pay

34
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How did home life change for women - magazines and TV

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40s & 50s magazines emphasise on housework 50% read mags and marriage
60s - TV focuses on tips for women in the house
70s - TV focuses on celebs seeing women as women not mothers and wives

35
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How did home life change for women - technology

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1949 housing act - gas electricity and pumped water - no back breaking jobs , can use hovers washing machines

60s fridges - less shopping

= more leisure time

36
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How did home life change for women - expectations

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Technology meant expectations rise dad they could do more cleaning

37
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How did home life change for women - choice

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More leather time meant they had more choice on how to use it

38
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How many minutes spent a day on housework in 50

A

500 minutes

39
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How many minutes spent on housework on 60s

A

440

40
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How many minutes spent on housework in 1975

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345

41
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What did the Hannah Gavron report say in 1960s

A 
35% middle class married to escape 
Regret not perusing a career
Marriage was more equal 
Saw main role as a mother and wife
Felt education was towards men
Accepted the situation
42
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When did women’s lib start

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Late 1960

43
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What did the 6 point group want

A

Equality across :

Politics 
Occupation 
Moral
Social 
Legal 
Economic
44
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Examples of women’s group campaigns

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Nuclear disarmament

Main political parties

45
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What did the Fawcett society want?

A

Equal pay and treatment

46
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What did the women in Hull want

A

Safety in industry for their fisherman husbands if they were injured

47
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What was the term used to raise awareness

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Conscientious raising

48
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What was conscientious raising

A

Personal effects of discrimination
Deep sealed ideas of women
Own skills and rights to Swiss opportunities

49
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When was the pill created

A

1957

50
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When was the pill available on the NHS

A

1963

51
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When was the abortion act

A

1967 and implemented in 1968

52
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When was the divorce reform act

A

1969

53
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When was the matrimonial prospect act?

A

1970

54
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When was the sex discrimination act

A

1975

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