FRG 1.4 Flashcards
What was the impact of WW2 on Women?
After 1945, there was a surplus of women. in 1948, there were 7.3m women more, divorce rates were very high. Due to less men, women had to work
What did the govt do for women?
Ministry for family affairs was set up in 1953 to give mothers and wives financial benefits. Govt did little to make work look attractive for women. Adenauer spoke about equality for women.
what was work like for women in the FRG?
in 1977 the marriage and family law was revised to give women equal rights in marriage. The civil code law was also overturned so single women could work and not if they were just married. but some still stuck to tradition
What were womens liberation movements like?
Women’s lib movements were very active in 1960s -70s
What kind of things did the women lib movements do?
They set up day care centers and campaigns with nursery teachers to get the govt to change the way day care and schools were run
what did the more radical women’s movements focus on?
they targeted paragraph 218 and abortion rights, contraception, Alice schwarzer a journalist put 30 photos of women in a mag cover with the title- “We’ve had abortions!”
How was the role and status of women diff in DRG to FRG before they were united?
- In the DRG, women had a equal status, they worked full time,, they were provided with childcare
- In FRG, motherhood had a higher status, more traditional, families were offered benefits
were there ethnic minorities in the FRG?
germany was full with millions of refugees, there was a surplus population
what was the impact of the the Economic Boom of 1950-60 on workers/ foreigners?
The boom created a need form more workers, 1955- full employment and govt wanted more workers from abroad, Unions hated the idea as foreigners would drive wages down, so priority was still given to Germans
Attitudes towards foreign workers?
known as guest workers- temporary, didn’t have the same rights as germans, they had a yearly contract, unions helped them work but not settle in
what was the impact of the 1960s recession on guest workers?
increased hostility towards them, landlord refused to take them in, they were forced to live in the poorest areas
what was the impact of the 1970s oil crisis on guest workers?
They were forced to leave germany, in Nov 1973, govt banned permits for families and stopped hiring, however many still stayed.
how did the govt deal wit the children of guest workers?
they provided mix culture learning groups with germans and guest worker children, number of foreign children in schools rose
what was the education focus of allies in FRG?
to remove Nazi influence and educate children for a democratic society, more students went to unis and gyms
how did the allies control the culture ?
It was easy to remove nazi controls, Many people found it easy to adopt the western cultural, consumerism
