Women in Mussolinis Italy

Question 1

Who was Mussolini’s first wife ?

Answer 1

Rachele Mussolini

Question 2

Why did he marry her twice ?

Answer 2

Once ina civil ceremony in 1915 and again in a church service to please Catholics in 1925

Question 3

Who was his first mistress ?

Answer 3

Margherita Sarfatti

Question 4

What did she work on ?

Answer 4

Popolo D’Italia

Question 5

Which mistress did Mussolini die alongside ?

Answer 5

Clara Petacci

Question 6

Which sympathies did she hold ?

Answer 6

She was pro Nazi

Question 7

Which subjects could women not teach at university ?

Answer 7

History, Philosophy, Latin and Italian

Question 8

Women actually rose at university from 6% to ?

Answer 8

15% by 1938

Question 9

Women were encouraged to be athletic and sturdy, which led Salvemini to describe this project as…

Answer 9

the battle for fat

Question 10

Women were encouraged to be athletic though Mussolini feared which consequence of women in sport ?

Answer 10

Lesbianism and infertility

Question 11

‘women in the home’ was a project by which womens fascist group ?

Answer 11

Fasci Feminilli

Question 12

Which voluntary activities were women encouraged to join ?

Answer 12

OND and ONMI work

Question 13

Fasci Feminilli had how many members at its peak ?

Answer 13

700,000

Question 14

In 1933 what % was placed on women in state employment ?

Answer 14

10%

Question 15

which two areas of work did fascists accept womens role in ?

Answer 15

industry and agriculture

Question 16

women with which educational background particularly struggled to find work ?

Answer 16

university educated

Question 17

what % of agricultural workers were women ?

Answer 17

44%

Question 18

what % of industrial workers were women ?

Answer 18

35%

Question 19

the limit on women in the workplace was lifted in 1939 for which particular jobs ?

Answer 19

telephonists, typists, nurses

Question 20

women did not have to pay back government loans if they produced how many children ?

Answer 20

4

Question 21

families did not have to pay income tax if they had how many children ?

Answer 21

10

Question 22

By 1940 what had births per 1000 dropped to

Answer 22

23.5

Question 23

what had the total population risen to ?

Answer 23

46.9 million

Question 24

what had deaths per 1000 dropped to

Answer 24

13.6

Question 25

Which special day was introduced in 1933 ?

Answer 25

The annual day of mother and child

Question 26

what did militia men have to do in the street ?

Answer 26

Salute pregnant women

Question 27

There was a special tax for batchelors between which ages ?

Answer 27

35-50

Question 28

Women with gold wedding rings were told to swap them for ?

Answer 28

tin rings