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Summary The Making of Modern Britain - The Role of Women ()

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The Making of Modern Britain

Institution
AQA

The role of women from 1951 to 1997 are summarised in great detail which will help supplement, even expand your own knowledge, thus helping plan and write essays on the topic.

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politics
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women
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aqa
sixties
social reform
society
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the making of modern britain

Position of Women
1951 – 1964 -50s Primarily housewives.
-Average age of marriage 21 & 75% of all were married.
-1951, 1 in 5 worked.
-Family allowance ensured women didn’t need to work.
-Welfare state based on nuclear family & men full
employment.
-Women financially dependent.
-By 64’ working women risen, housewives uncommon to
work.
-TU not support & damaging for children.
-Teachers equal pay 1952 (middle class)
-1957 to 59’, washing machine ownership rose by 54%,
‘The Liberator’
- By end of period, 2nd wave feminism argued women
unfulfilled & trapped by homemaker role. US to UK by later
60s.
1964 – 1970 -Housewife role strong most of 60s, esp. working-class.
-The Feminine Mystique 63’ + 2nd wave + growth in
middle-class female education = frustration
-Women only 28% of students in higher education in 1970
-5% reached managerial posts.
-Girls’ education domestic slant
-No job shortage (till 70’ could be paid less than men).
-Clerical & service sector = poor prospects & poor pay
-Working mothers unnatural & selfish by media.
-Childminders rare in 60s & private nurseries only for
wealthy.
-Family Planning Act 1967 (Contraceptives)
-Changing attitudes, 5.8% 1960 to 8.2% 1970 illegitimate
births
-Inevitability of pregnancy removed = liberating
-Thalidomide disaster = Abortion Act 1967
-35,000 (1968) to 141,000 (1975) abortions

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