Working Women and Liberation

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Working Women and Liberation

1.

Describe the types of jobs that most women who

wished to work received.

·

Teachers

·

Nurses

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Secretaries

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Domestic service trades

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Unskilled process/factory

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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

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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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