Women in Lit Historical context

Question 1

1900 the ‘new woman’

Answer 1

modern women attended college, rejecting traditional domesticity

Question 2

1910-19

Answer 2

women receive a right to minimum wage

Question 3

1918

Answer 3

women over 30 have the right to vote

Question 4

1914 (WW1 starts)

Answer 4

women take up male roles in jobs (factories, the land)

Question 5

1919 onwards

Answer 5

women can go to university more freely and take up professions

Question 6

1910-1919

Answer 6

Modernist women wrote of lesbian and sexual freedom whilst rejecting domesticity

Question 7

1920-29

Answer 7

female employment declined with ‘re-gendering’ of work, women excluded from unemployment benefits if they refused domestic roles

Question 8

1928

Answer 8

universal suffrage (all over 21 can vote)

Question 9

1930-39

Answer 9

women working is more normalised with WW2, but roles are poorly paid and weren’t ‘skilled’ jobs

Question 10

1930-39 ‘marriage bar’

Answer 10

meant women had to give up their roles in civil service once married

Question 11

1940-49

Answer 11

women’s pay averaged 53% of the pay the men they replaced wages

Question 12

1940-49 creation of NHS

Answer 12

created roles for women to take, primarily nursing roles - gendering of roles at work and society