Women

Question 1

When did the Abortion Law Association begin to campaign for a reform in the law?

Answer 1

1945

Question 2

Position of women in 1951

Answer 2

20% worked due to the family allowance
Bank accounts were in the mans name

Question 3

When was the Equal Pay Act for teachers?

Answer 3

1952

Question 4

What increased (and by how much) from 1957-9?

Answer 4

washing machines (54%)

Question 5

What was a concern in 1960’s to do with births?

Answer 5

Thalidomide disaster caused congenital deformities –> a drug prescribed for morning sickness

Question 6

When was the Society for the unborn child set up?

Answer 6

1966

Question 7

What was introduced in 1967 from NHS?

Answer 7

Family planning Act gave advice + abortion legalised w/in 28 weeks with doctors consent

Question 8

When was the Divorce Reform Act

Answer 8

1969

Question 9

What Committee laucned in 1969?

Answer 9

Womens National coordination Commitee

Question 10

Education stats in 1970

Answer 10

20% in higher education but only 5% mangerial positions

Question 11

2 Acts that came into place in 1970?

Answer 11

Matrimonail Act and Equal Pay

Question 12

When did the #2 Equal Pay Act come into place?

Answer 12

1975

Question 13

When was Miss World disrupted by protesters?

Answer 13

1970

Question 14

When did birth control become accessible?

Answer 14

1971

Question 15

What was the Employment Protection Act in 1971?

Answer 15

gave paid meternity leave

Question 16

When was the Sex Discrimination Act set up and affects?

Answer 16

1975 –> limited success

Question 17

When did the rape case centre open?

Answer 17

1976

Question 18

When was the Domestic Violence Act?

Answer 18

1976

Question 19

Womens wages over the years

Answer 19

(1977) 70%
(1996) 80%
(2007) 87%

Question 20

When was the beginning of 3rd wave feminism?

Answer 20

1990’s

Question 21

What was 3rd wave feminism?

Answer 21

girl power led by spice girls
Thatcher ‘owed nothing to women’
even though she was the ‘first lady in power’

Question 22

When was there a first female speaker?

Answer 22

1992

Question 23

When was the child support agency set up?

Answer 23

(1993) absent parents pay for child support

Question 24

Number of women MP’s in 1997?

Answer 24

rose to 120 (double previous number)

Question 25

What did Blair do for women?

Answer 25

appointed prominent positions in cabinet to women
–> Margaret Beckett foreign secretary (first women in that position)

Question 26

What did labour do for women?

Answer 26

childcare provisions extended by 2007
pension credits given when unable to work because fo caring responsibilites

Question 27

Limited progress for women by 2007?

Answer 27

pay gap
paid employment undervalued by unpaid work at home