13 - Progress Towards Female Equality

Question 1

What did the 1960s see the development of?

Answer 1

Female protest movements

Question 2

What contrasted different females in society? What did this difference mean?

Answer 2

Different agendas

They weren’t as effective as they wanted

Question 3

What sector in the 1960s saw little improvement?

Answer 3

Politics

Question 4

How many women stood for MP election in 1966? How many were successful?

Answer 4

80

21

Question 5

How many women were promoted to high office in politics? Who was an exception?

Answer 5

Few

Barbara Castle

Question 6

What strikers did Castle support? What was she reticent about?

Answer 6

Dagenham strikers

Female issues

Question 7

Which leading female Tory gave no encouragement for women to enter politics?

Answer 7

Margaret Thatcher

Question 8

What particular feminist movement grew? What other name was this movement given?

Answer 8

Second-wave feminism

“Women’s liberation”

Question 9

What 3 issues were addressed in second-wave feminism?

Answer 9

Gender stereotypes
Limited career opportunity
Greater roles in society

Question 10

What did women demand from employers?

Answer 10

Pay rises

Question 11

Who owned the car factory in Dagenham? When did the strike take place?

Answer 11

Ford

1968

Question 12

How much were Dagenham female sewing machinists paid less? How long did the women strike?

Answer 12

15% less than men

3 weeks

Question 13

What did Castle and the Dagenham women agree to increase wages by? What did the strike raise the profile of?

Answer 13

7%

Unequal pay

Question 14

Which 1970 Act did the Dagenham strike help to pass?

Answer 14

Equal Pay Act

Question 15

Since what decade had women been voicing frustration about their career opportunities? How much progress had been made since then?

Answer 15

1940s

Little

Question 16

What equality struggled under social inequalities? How were women treated as a result of this?

Answer 16

Economic equality
Second-class citizens

Question 17

Who organised a National Women’s Conference in 1970? Where was this held?

Answer 17

Feminists

Oxford

Question 18

What did the National Women’s Conference stimulate local groups and women to do?

Answer 18

Protest and campaign

Question 19

What contest was attacked in 1970? What did this event coincide with?

Answer 19

Miss World contest

National Women’s Conference protests

Question 20

What did the late 1960s see a profusion of in literature? What magazine is an example of this?

Answer 20

Feminist literature

Shrew

Question 21

Who wrote The Female Eunuch? What did this book receive?

Answer 21

Germaine Greer

Wide publicity

Question 22

What did Greer argue in The Female Eunuch?

Answer 22

Men’s control stifled individuality and development

Question 23

What was a big problem with feminist movements? What 2 groups took part?

Answer 23

It covered loads of different agendas

Wives to radical feminists

Question 24

What communes did some women join? What issues did other women prioritise?

Answer 24

Female-only communes

Economic issues

Question 25

What 2 liberal issues did women prioritise?

Answer 25

Abortion

Birth control

Question 26

What Campaign was founded in 1975 to extend 1967 legislation?

Answer 26

National Abortion Campaign

Question 27

Who was a prominent “clean-up campaigner”? What did she promote?

Answer 27

Mary Whitehouse

Housemakers and mothers

Question 28

With what values and conduct would Whitehouse campaign domestic affairs?

Answer 28

Traditional family values

Moral conduct

Question 29

What does Germaine Greer suggest middle-class women are calling for in The Female Eunuch?

Answer 29

“Middle-class women are calling for revolution”