FRG: Women Flashcards
What were ‘surplus women’?
After the war, there was 7.3 million more women in Germany than men
After the war, what was the main viewpoint on women still?
Fever women were involved in politics.
Propaganda was still very similar that the ideal woman for many people were still a wife and a mother..
This was underlined by the setting up of a ministry for family affairs in 1953, to provide wives and mothers with financial benefits
politicians accepted the need to advise a civil code to give women legal freedom? When did this actually happen?
It didn’t happen until 1958, before this married, women still need their husbands permission to go to work, and my husband had full control of the women’s property on marriage
When will women give an equal rights in marriage?
1977
How was past thinking around women (eg. Kinder, küche and Kriche) still presents
Women liberation movement in the 19 1670s were constantly battling ingrained thinking
In 19 82,50% of men and 54% of women said that a man’s career was more important than his wives, and 70% of men and 68% of women thought women should stop work in marriage.
What was paragraph 218
Paragraph 218 establishing 1871, made it a crime for women to seek abortion unless of a strong medical reasons
How did women group target? Paragraph 218 and abortion rights
Group started organising protest against it and set up refugees for battered women in the cities, but also in small towns
Wrote magazines and published pamphlets about women’s health
Large city based lesbian movement evolved, focused on mainly West Berlin
In 1989, what was the clear demarcation in thinking. What was this highlighted by?
Between ‘mothers’ and ‘working women’.
Highlighted when the two Germany united . Women in the DG had a very different more equal status and far more likely to work full-time. But women in the DG were also more likely to work in need to have a sufficient family income
In the FG, the married woman was still seen in terms of the family gave motherhood a highest status and tax break to encourage mothers to stay at home for at least the first three years of a child’s life.
