Women And The Family Flashcards
What were Nazi actions and policies towards women?
-The law for the encouragement of marriage
-Abortion became illegal
-contraception became illegal
-1935 Marriage Law
-Compulsory sterilisation
-Encouraged or forced from their jobs
-All women doctors sacked
-no make up and trousers
-discouraged from dieting
-motherhood cross
How were policies against women effective?
Higher birth rates
More people getting married
Higher rate of employment
Lebensborn
Sterilisation made hereditary disease figures drop
How were policies Ineffective?
Marriage certificate discouraged marriage. Rate increased after this was relaxed in 1938
Being forced from their Jobs as they did not want to go back during the war
Birth rate slows down
Marriage loans held marriage back
Not all women conformed with the rules
