20. losses rather than gains by the end of 1946?

Question 1

______ women fired from heavy industry

Answer 1

2 million

Question 2

______ lost their jobs within 2 months of the end of war against Japan in 1945

Answer 2

800,000

Question 3

right to political participation could not prevent

Answer 3

wholesale discrimination against women workers

Question 4

not all women workers returned home but they had to accept l

Answer 4

lower pay, lower status, exclusion from key jobs (now considered too heavy for them)

Question 5

gap between men’s pay and women’s pay increased

Answer 5

1956-1960

Question 6

sexual exploitation increased as

Answer 6

new consumerism tried to take advantage of women’s sex appeal
coy flirtatiousness was often only way to get some jobs

Question 7

women also expected to combine work

Answer 7

with domestic responsibilities

Question 8

concentration of women in caring roles of

Answer 8

nursing teaching and social work

Question 9

South economic and political discrimination even more linked

Answer 9

wage differential for AA worse

states did utmost to prevent AA getting vote and made them subject to discriminatory laws

Question 10

significant AA female participation in civil rights moments

Answer 10

Rosa Parks- initiated protest in Montgomery in 1955

Elizabeth Eckford- little Rock in 1957

Question 11

AA women took a leading part in grass roots organisations that worked for civil rights e.g.

Answer 11

ella baker