Social Developments: Developments for Women in Society - Additional Info and Trico Strike

Question 1

How many women MP’s were there at the time Thatcher became leader of the Conservatives out of all Commons members?

Answer 1

23 out of 516

Question 2

When did the Sex Discrimination Act come in to legislation? (To the month)

Answer 2

January 1975

Question 3

How many women went to work by the mid 1970’s?

Answer 3

50%

Question 4

What did the amount of women working by the mid 1970’s potentially show in terms of cost of living?

Answer 4

It could have shown that lots of families were struggling to live on just the husbands wages

Question 5

What did the amount of women working by the mid 1970’s potentially show in terms of previous divorce reform?

Answer 5

Perhaps many more women were now divorced which contributed to more women working by the mid 1970’s because there was no one to support them

Question 6

How much of a fraction of a mens wages did a woman make by the mid 1970’s?

Answer 6

3/4

Question 7

What did Labour put in to place as of 1st January 1976?

Answer 7

A new equal pay act

Question 8

What is a business that continued to pay women less for the same amount of work?

Answer 8

Trico, a windscreen wiper business continued to pay women less for even though they did the same amount of work

Question 9

What did the window wiper factory women do due to this inequality? When?

Answer 9

They went on strike in May 1976

Question 10

How long did the women strike for?

Answer 10

21 weeks

Question 11

Who did the women Trico workers receive support from? Why was this significant?

Answer 11

Coal miners and Dock workers. This was significant because these workplaces were mostly made up of working class men

Question 12

What was significant about the amount of time that the Trico workers striked for? What impact did this have?

Answer 12

It was the longest strike over a pay dispute. Its impact was that it made the public more able to see what was happening

Question 13

What was the result of the Trico workers strike?

Answer 13

Many other female workers decided to strike

Question 14

What was the significance of lots of other women workers going on strike after the 1976 Equal Pay Act?

Answer 14

It showed that it did not result in equal pay and the women wanted to do something about it

Question 15

What wave of feminism was the wave of the 1970’s called?

Answer 15

Second-wave feminism

Question 16

What was a limitation of the 1970’s womens rights movements being called second-wave feminism?

Answer 16

It made it seem like nothing had been done to progress womens rights further since before 1918

Question 17

How can numbers of people in the Womens Liberation Movement be seen to be increasing by 1977?

Answer 17

3000 attendees of the 1977 WLM meeting

Question 18

What did feminists do at the 1970 Miss World stage?

Answer 18

They threw stink bombs on the stage

Question 19

What was a limitation of the feminist acts on the 1970 Miss World stage?

Answer 19

The media labelled feminists as men-haters and discouraged other women to join feminist movements

Question 20

What did the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act end?

Answer 20

Discrimination in housing, education and employment

Question 21

What was a limitation of the Equal Pay act agreed in 1970?

Answer 21

It would not come into effect until 1975

Question 22

What was a potential advantage of the 5 year wait for the Equal Pay Act for all businesses?

Answer 22

It could give them time to prepare to give women equal pay

Question 23

What was a limitation of the 1975 equal pay act?

Answer 23

Womens wages only became 40% that of mens wages down from 50%

Question 24

What did Labour do to try and create equal pay in 1976?

Answer 24

They attempted to make a 1976 Equal Pay Act

Question 25

What company still didnt pay women equal money to men after the 1976 Act? What did this result in?

Answer 25

Trico, resulting in a 21 week pay dispute strike

Question 26

What percentage of married women were employed in 1960, 1970, and 1980?

Answer 26

38% of married women employed in 1960. 45% of married women employed in 1970. 60% of married women employed in 1980

Question 27

How many women were in universities in 1977 compared to 1971?

Answer 27

28% of students in Uni’s were women in 1971 up to 38% in 1977

Question 28

What was a limitation of the increase in women as students in universities?

Answer 28

Most of them only took art-related courses

Question 29

Who helped women seek refuge but was not a feminist?

Answer 29

Erin Pizzey

Question 30

What did women who went to seek refuge with Pizzey experience?

Answer 30

Domestic Violence

Question 31

What did Pizzey initially do to house all refuge-seekers, what did this result in?

Answer 31

She put them all in her own house. 40 people were in 4 rooms, resulting in possible prosecution for overcrowding

Question 32

What eventually happened with Pizzey using her own house for refugees?

Answer 32

She got funding to buy a larger house for refugees in Chiswick

Question 33

What was a limitation of Pizzey’s relations with the Womens Action Forum?

Answer 33

She stormed out in 1975 which cut ties to funding the Chiswick residency

Question 34

What act for Homeless women was created in 1977?

Answer 34

1977 Housing for Homeless People Act

Question 35

What did the 1977 Housing for Homeless people act do?

Answer 35

Give people a place to stay if they had experienced domestic violence

Question 36

What was a limitation of the 1977 Housing for Homeless people act by 2010?

Answer 36

Cuts to the act were introduced in 2010 and 25% of women still experienced domestic violence

Question 37

What was the long term impact of the ‘reclaim the night’ marches?

Answer 37

They did not have a long term impact as by the early 2000’s, over 150 women a day were reported to have suffered from being raped.