'Despite all the legislation between 1918 and 1979, women still faced discrimination in all walks of life.' How far do you agree with this statement?
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- 'Despite all the legislation between 1918 and 1979, women still faced discrimination in all walks of life.' How far do you agree with this statement?
- Introduction
- Define 'all walks of life'
- Social
- Economic
- Political
- Crucially depended on status
- Define 'all walks of life'
- Thesis: discrimination persisted
- Socially
- Disruption of WW2 meant that women were happy to return to pre-war role
- Consumerism heightened expectations
- Politically
- Economically
- Any advancement was reliant on status
- Flapper girls of 1920s
- Clerical jobs of 1920s
- W-C women starved themselves to feed their families in the Great Depression
- Any advancement was reliant on status
- Socially
- Antithesis: Discrimination had been significantly reduced
- Socially
- Impossible to legislate
- No longer 'housewives' - 'partnership' marriages
- Due to WW2
- Marie Stope's family planning clinics (1920)
- Untitled
- Matrimonial Causes Act (1937)
- Politically
- Economically
- Equal pay in the Civil Service 1958
- Socially
- Introduction
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