100% satisfaction guarantee Immediately available after payment Both online and in PDF No strings attached
logo-home
Previously searched by you
Previously searched by you
logo
Britain Transformed A-Level History Summary Notes: Women CA$6.45   Add to cart
Quickly navigate to
Preview
  2.  
  3. PEARSON (PEARSON)
  4.  
  5. History 2015
  6.  
  7. Unit 1H - Britain transformed, 1918-97 (8HI01H)

Summary

Britain Transformed A-Level History Summary Notes: Women

 22 views  1 purchase
  • Course
  • Unit 1H - Britain transformed, 1918-97 (8HI01H)
  • Institution
  • PEARSON (PEARSON)
  • Book
  • History for Edexcel A Level: Democracies in change: Britain and the USA in the twentieth century

Edexcel Paper 1 A-level History notes which summarise the textbook chapters. The notes roughly summarised and paraphrased are intended to aid ones revision for the exam. In order to receive the most out of this, I would recommend creating flashcards from them and using as prompts instead of the tex...

[Show more]

Preview 2 out of 9  pages

Document information

  • Yes
  • July 6, 2023
  • 9
  • 2022/2023
  • Summary

Subjects

  • history
  • a level history
  • a level
  • a level history paper 1
  • britain transformed
  • democracies in change
  • history a level britain
  • britain women
  • the role of women britain
  • britain and usa in the 20th century

Connected book

book image

Book Title:

Author(s):

  • Edition:
  • ISBN:
  • Edition:

More summaries for

  • Britain Transformed A-Level History Thatcher Summary Notes: Economics
  • Britain Transformed A-Level History Thatcher Summary Notes: Division
  • Britain Transformed A-Level History Thatcher Summary Notes: State
All for this textbook (22)

Written for

  • A/AS Level
  • PEARSON (PEARSON)
  • History 2015
  • Unit 1H - Britain transformed, 1918-97 (8HI01H)
All documents for this subject (67)

Seller

avatar-seller
poppyjacobs

Reviews received

Content preview

Women


Franchise
1918 representation of the people act- only middle class women over 30

Only educated and repeatable women promoted to vote

Women in 1918 comprised of 43% of the electorate

8.4million voters were women

Working class women didn’t receive the vote until 1928




World War One
Fact Stat Point Impact

Women now could
Auxillaries, drivers, Position of women became
Work for women work for the first
telephonists, signallers, nurses significant
time

Demonstrating
Female industrial 1914- 200,000 employed in Large industrial
perhaps minimal
workforce metals and chemicals industry workforce.
impact of war

Female industrial
Shows increase in the role
workforce 1918- 1 million Increasing agency
of women in work
increase

11,000 women worked in Women can work
Factory in Gretna Main factory
explosives in imperative roles

Shows lack of
Fighting men who returned
progression (short
Return of men forced women out of the Shows limited impact
term) in the rights
workplace
of women

Government Female workers could only Shows lack of equality Demonstrates the
Dilution replace workers if their short term impact
agreement employment only lasted as as employed




Women 1

, long as the way and they women returned to
would receive less wage 1914 levels

Level of
employed women
5.7million
returned to 1914
levels

Working class
Shows lack of job
women Being a maid, cook or cleaner Shows disparity in class
prospects
employment

Shows
The work they did was
dissatisfaction with
1918 how many highly unpopular they
quality of life and
women were in 1.25million were keen to find other
lack of job
service unemployment | labelled
opportunities,
as ‘womens work’
segregation

Shows class
Factory or service discrepencies
Working class women Clerical work if educated
work between the
gender.
Clerical was
biggest growth
1 million employed as typists Shows long term
area for female Further 300,000 in 1931
or clerks in 1921 positivity
employment in
20s
Desperation due to
Sweated labour
Main method of employment unemployment benefit rate
and light
for those desperate being set lower for women
manufacturing
than for men

Provided greater
Sex Removed the bar of a opportunities but
disqualification 1919 woman from a career in male attitude
act law or civil service majority
unchanged

3,000 female
medical In 1931 Low number
practitioners

Shows disparity in
180,000 nurses In 1931
superior roles achieved

21 female Out of 6,000 In 1931 Shows superficial
architects change of the sex




Women 2

The benefits of buying summaries with Stuvia:

Guaranteed quality through customer reviews

Guaranteed quality through customer reviews

Stuvia customers have reviewed more than 700,000 summaries. This how you know that you are buying the best documents.

Quick and easy check-out

Quick and easy check-out

You can quickly pay through credit card or Stuvia-credit for the summaries. There is no membership needed.

Focus on what matters

Focus on what matters

Your fellow students write the study notes themselves, which is why the documents are always reliable and up-to-date. This ensures you quickly get to the core!

Frequently asked questions

What do I get when I buy this document?

You get a PDF, available immediately after your purchase. The purchased document is accessible anytime, anywhere and indefinitely through your profile.

Satisfaction guarantee: how does it work?

Our satisfaction guarantee ensures that you always find a study document that suits you well. You fill out a form, and our customer service team takes care of the rest.

Who am I buying these notes from?

Stuvia is a marketplace, so you are not buying this document from us, but from seller poppyjacobs. Stuvia facilitates payment to the seller.

Will I be stuck with a subscription?

No, you only buy these notes for CA$6.45. You're not tied to anything after your purchase.

Can Stuvia be trusted?

4.6 stars on Google & Trustpilot (+1000 reviews)

78310 documents were sold in the last 30 days

Founded in 2010, the go-to place to buy study notes for 14 years now

Start selling
CA$6.45  1x  sold
  • (0)
  Add to cart