Working Women and Liberation

1. Describe the types of jobs that most women who wished to work received.

· Teachers

· Nurses

· Secretaries

· Domestic service trades

· Unskilled process/factory

· Family businesses

2. List four occupations where you think women would be unlikely to be employed during the 1950s and 60s.

· Politician

· Craftsman

· Manager

· Architect

3. What were the aims of the women's liberation movement?

· Childcare facilities to allow women to go to work if they wished

· Equal pay for women

· Equal choice in jobs

· Better services for women

4. How successful was the women's movement in the 1960s?

In 1967 a women’s movement began in the USA. People in this movement became known as women’s liberationists or ‘women’s libbers’. They strived to liberate women from the traditional roles and restrictions. Australian feminist Germaine Greer was part of this movement, and wrote a book in support of women’s liberation called The Female Eunuch. However this movement was unsuccessful, because by 1970, women were still limited in their career opportunities and discrimination continued to exist in most industries.

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11 Yr 9-10 History (Australia's Social & Cultural History in the Post-War Period) Note on Working Women and Liberation, created by ElsienaKate on 11/05/2013.

Working Women and Liberation