FRG Women

Question 1

how many more women than men were there in 1948?

Answer 1

7.3 million more

Question 2

what year saw a peak in divorce rate?

Answer 2

1948

80% higher than in 1946

Question 3

what was the status of women in the FRG?

Answer 3

a wife and a mother

shows continuity from Nazis

Question 4

what did the Ministry for Family Affairs set up to achieve in 1953?

Answer 4

provide mothers and wives with financial benefits

Question 5

what did Article 3 of the Basic Law state?

Answer 5

that there would be equality for ALL

Question 6

when was the civil code revised in favour of women and what did it change?

Answer 6

1958

women no longer had to ask husband’s permission to go to work

Question 7

what did the Marriage and Family law of 1977 achieve?

Answer 7

gave women equal rights in marriage

overturned much of the civil code which had been in place since 1900

Question 8

how many women believed a husband’s jobs is more important than a wife’s?

Answer 8

54% of women

stresses the continuity of conservatism

Question 9

how many women believed that wives should quit their jobs upon marriage?

Answer 9

68% of women

Question 10

where were women’s liberation movements most prominent?

Answer 10

amongst students and radicals who lived in German cities

Question 11

what did women’s liberation movements mainly target?

Answer 11

Paragraph 218 and abortion rights

Question 12

did the problem of abortion ever get solved in the FRG?

Answer 12

in 1974 the government tried to pass through a law which made abortion legal for up to 12 weeks but due to public outcry it was struck down by the supreme court