Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Changes in Roles of Women
- Weimar
- Very traditional - 3 K's introduced - Children, Kitchen and
Church
- German civil code - Legal status did not change as they said it
would
- Gave women the vote - first country in the world to do
this.
- 112 women in the
Reichstag
- The 'New' women - Flappers - Smoking, more sexual freedom
etc.
- Introduced by America and France
- Greatly discouraged
- More white-blouse jobs
(Secretarial)
- WW1 saw women take men's
jobs
- However actively asked to give up
work
- 'Last to be hired, first to be
fired'
- Unequal pay between
genders
- Nazi
- 3 K's remained but less need for 'church' - this took away attention from the
Nazi's.
- Discouraged women from taking part in
politics
- No women Nazi
officials
- Couldn't take away the vote because needed women's
support
- Flapper women still
discouraged.
- More sexual freedom meant that this reduced the amount of 'Aryans' being
born.
- Aryan Race = New
ideas
- Women expected to be fit and modest
- Worked in the home or in domestic jobs
only
- More successful in removing women from work (E.g. marriage
loans)
- Unequal pay between
genders