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Question 1

How many women were elected into the Reichstag between 1919 and 1932?

Answer 1

112

Question 2

What was Article 109?

Answer 2

It said that marriage should be an equal union and women should be able to enter the professions.

Question 3

Complete this sentence:

Women were paid about …… % less than their male counterparts

Answer 3

33

Question 4

Why was the idea about a single women working more acceptable

Answer 4

This is because they were seen as temporary activity until they married

Question 5

How many women doctors were there in 1925?

Answer 5

2500

Question 6

Who were the new women and what did they want?

Answer 6

They were women who rejected the traditional gender role and they wanted to work and be independent.

Question 7

What did they do that was different to traditional women?

Answer 7

They smoke, drank, cut their hair short and wore short dresses

Question 8

In 1932 how many men were unemployed compared to women?

Answer 8

46 % men

33 % women

Question 9

What was the slogan the Nazis adopted?

Answer 9

Kinder Kurche Kirche

Question 10

Women had their own organisation. What was it called?

Answer 10

National Socialist Womanhood

Question 11

What did the Nazis encourage pure Germans to do?

Answer 11

They encouraged them to breed and and gave them marriage loans to encourage them to get married.

Question 12

How much Rm was given to each child?

Answer 12

100

Question 13

What was the Lebensborn programme?

Answer 13

It aimed to produce healthy Aryan children.

Question 14

What order were the SS given on 31st December 1931?

Answer 14

SS marriage Order states members of the SS can only marry Aryan women. and need to have 4 kids.

Question 15

What was the Law for the protection of Hereditary health of the German People ?

Answer 15

It is a fitness to marry certificate required to prove neither couple is genetically or racially impure.

Question 16

What happened on 30th June 1933?

Answer 16

All married woman in the civil service with wage earning husbands to be dismissed.

Question 17

What were the impact of Nazi policies?

Answer 17

A lot of women lost their jobs

Question 18

What was the impact of war on women in Germany?

Answer 18

Women were urged to join the war even if they were married. The Nzv had 31,000 Kindergarten and creches.

Question 19

What were the 3 main reasons for the smaller increase in German women entering the workforce?

Answer 19

1) The Nazi Propaganda machine had done its work well.
2) The Government did not use women in all kind of work.
3) Germany had the use of foreign Labour.

Question 20

How many more women than men were there in Nazi Germany?

Answer 20

7.3 million more women than men.

Question 21

What was the ideal women after WW2 ?

Answer 21

The ideal women for many people was still a wife and mother.

Question 22

When was the marriage and family law made and what was it?

Answer 22

1977 and it gave women equal rights to in marriage.

Question 23

In the 1980s how many men and women said that the mans career is more important?

Answer 23

50% of men

54% of women

Question 24

In the 1980s how many men and women said that women should stop working after marriage?

Answer 24

70% of men

68% of women

Question 25

In the 1980s how many men and women said that women should care for the home and men should work?

Answer 25

70% of men and women.

Question 26

When was the woman’s liberation movement active?

Answer 26

In the 1960s and 1970s

Question 27

What were attitudes to women like in 1989?

Answer 27

In 1989 there was still a clear line between mothers and working women.