Women

Question 1

How did education change for girls between 1870 and 1900?

Answer 1

Before 1870 girls could not attend school. By 1900, 97% of children could read and write

Question 2

What did young girls learn if they attended school?

Answer 2

Domestic chores suitable to look after a man: ironing ,preparing porridge and how to make gravy.

Question 3

What did most married women have to spend their time doing?

Answer 3

They had to get a job in textiles, homes or a telephone switchboard operator for 80 hours a week.

Question 4

What did the luckiest women do by the end of the 19th century

Answer 4

• Telephone switchboard

- Typist

Question 5

Why was employment unfair on women?

Answer 5

Women earned less than a man e.g Civil Service typists (mens wages= £3 a week) (Womens=£1 a week)

Question 6

What changed and what remained the same for Women by the end of the 19th century?

Answer 6

-Women were excepted into universities (Jex Blake-Edinborough)
+Women were not allowed a degree

Question 7

What does marriage reveal about the position of women in society?

Answer 7

• Legal for husbands to beat and rape their wives
• Wives could not divorce her husband
• if a man divorced their wife, the wife would lose custody of her children