Women Flashcards
Number of women deputies in Reichstag 1926
32
BDF membership
900,000 members by 1929
Most were middle class
DNP and DNVP woman support
1/3 of women’s vote in 1924
Kinder, Kuche, Kirche
Children, Kitchen, Church
% of domestic shopping done by women
80%
Interest free loans made available to women who left work
RM600 in June 1933
Birth rate increase
1930s
Not a response to Nazi policy
Law for Encouragement of Marriage
July 1933
RM1000 loan provided to newly married couples
1/4 of loan written off after birth of a child
SS officers could only marry women who completed course at Reich Bride School
1936
Proportion of women in workforce rise during war
1/3 to just over 1/2
% of women involved in farm work
55% in 1939
67% in 1944
Number of women who worked regularly on farms
6 million
additional 950,000 during harvests
Death rates among children of foreign workers
as high as 90%
Orders issues that unfaithful women could be sent to CC
from 1940
% of women in Bundestag
5.8% in 1972
15.4% in 1987
Increase of women in work due to economic miracle
44.4% to 50% 1950-70
Poll supporting law banning mothers w/ children under 10 from working
1963
59% of males and females
% of women workforce in hospitals
75%
Only 4% were physicians
% of women as teachers
50%
Less than 20% were principles
% of women as Uni profs by 1980s
5%
Women salaries vs Men salaries in 1970s
65-78% for same job
Divorce rate increase 1960-90
49,000 to 123,000
No guilt divorce law
1977
Granted divorces for marriages that had simply broken down
Abortions 1971
1 million illegal abortions per year
Indication Law
1976
Allowed abortions within first 12 weeks of pregnancy
Birth control pill
1961
