Women in Weimar Germany

Question 1

What were single women known as? in WG

Answer 1

‘New Women’- smoked, cabaret, sexual freedom etc.

Question 2

What was available to women who didn’t want children? in WG

Answer 2

Contraception, divorce.

Question 3

What Code restricted women and how did it do this? in WG

Answer 3

German Civil Code of 1900- gave men dominance in marriage- if work interfered with domestic duties husbands had the ability to end wives’ work contracts.

Question 4

What were married women expected to do? in WG

Answer 4

Quit jobs, stay home. Kinder, Kirche, Kuche.

Question 5

What did people in rural areas think of women? in WG

Answer 5

Maintained traditional ideals and disagreed with ‘new women’.

Question 6

Which jobs did women often have? in WG

Answer 6

White blouse jobs.

Question 7

How many female lawyers were there in Weimar Germany? in WG

Answer 7

36?

Question 8

What happened to women’s jobs after the wall street crash?

Answer 8

Bruning’s law meant that husbands’ jobs mattered more than mens- women to quit jobs to keep men employed.

Question 9

At what age could women vote? in WG

Answer 9

Age 20 from 1918.

Question 10

How many women were in the Reichstag during Weimar Germany?

Answer 10

112

Question 11

How many women voted in the first election after they were given the vote?

Answer 11

90%