1. To what extent did the war bring about
Real change for Women? (10 marks)
• You now need to use the evidence you
have discovered to answer this 10 mark
question.
• Lets plan the answer together as a
class…..
The ‘command’ term
The key part of
the question –
what do you think
it means in this
question?

2. Does this source reflect women’s
attitudes during the War?

3. Are you surprised by this source?

4. Last Lesson we looked at….
The Beveridge Report 1942
The Creation of the NHS
Who was William Beveridge?
What was the Beveridge
Report?
What did it identify?

5. • Create a visual representation of the proposals
made by the Beveridge Report
• There is an example in the text book on page
447 – try to create one of your own so that it
makes sense to YOU
The Beveridge Report 1942

6. The Creation of the NHS
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCrHlAe
maFw
• Who created it?
• When was it set up?
• How many people did it help?
• What was the cost of it?
• Why were some doctors opposed to it?

7. • As your exam in January is 100% source based we need to make sure
we are able to analyse any type of source (draw out as much
information as possible)
• Questions to consider:
1. What info does the source provide?
2. What questions does the source raise
3. From your previous knowledge what do you
• believe are the answers to your questions?
Source work activity!
V&A Publications have assembled quite the
photographic collection of "real" British women
wearing Horrockses Fashions. In this photograph all the
ladies are actually Horrockses employees out on a
picnic, each one wearing a different Horrockses item.

8. • Sub-question: What was life like for
women in the 1950s?
Key Question How far did Life Change
for women 1939-75?

9. What was Women’s mentality going
into the 1950s?
• Can you think of any positive and negative aspects of a
women’s lives entering the 50s?
• What have they got to look forward to?
• What is there to be miserable about?
• Task:
• Sort the comments into positive and negative aspects
of a women’s life in the 1950s
• Write these in your books

11. 1. You must have a delicious dinner ready as soon as your man gets
home
2. Take 15 minutes to rest just before he gets home so you are fresh
for him, touch up your make-up and put a ribbon in your hair.
3. Greet him with a warm smile and show sincerity in your desire to
please him
4. Your goal is trying to make your home a place of peace, order and
tranquillity where your husband can renew himself in body and
spirit
5. Don’t complain if he is late for dinner or stays out all night. Count
this as minor compared to what he might have gone through that
day.
6. Catering for his comfort will provide you with immense personal
satisfaction
All women must follow the following
rules ….
You have 10 minutes to learn the rules the best you can and
then you will be interviewed by a male member of the class to
see which one of you is most suitable to be his wife!

12. • What can we learn form the sources on page
470-1?
• Which of the sources do you think is more
reliable? Why?
• (tip: think about why the source was
produced)
Source evaluation…..

13. Create this timeline across pages of
your book
1950 1975
Positive aspects/changes
Positive aspects/lack of changes
I have been very kind and have written out the
key information for the 1950s and you simply
need to place them along your timeline
Put the negative aspects on the bottom and
the more positive aspects/changes to
women’s lives

14. Now add the information from the
fact file on page 472 to your
timeline in the same way.

15. What was life like at home for women?
• Page 474-5 look at the
information and the
sources to understand
what their lives in the
home was like
• Make notes

16. Superwoman Magazine
• Source 12 page 474
• This is a popular women’s magazine of the
1970s
• What is it suggesting women should do?
• Do you think that the writer would have sauid
this 20 years before? If not how do you think it
would have chnaged?

17. Home Life for women
• Marriage became more common in the 1950s and 1960s –women
were also marrying younger
• This led to a baby boom in the 50s and 60s - 1965 was the peak
year to be born
• In the 60s new technology made a massive difference to women’s
lives – most people now had gas, electricity and piped water
• As a result back breaking tasks like bringing in coal became a lesser
feature of women’s lives
• Electricity allowed for fridges – stopped the daily shopping trip
• Allowed for vacuums and washing machines – eased the hard task
of the weekly clean and washing

18. • These machines gave women more time - the average
minutes women spent on house work per day fell from 500
in 1950 to 440 in 1960 to 345 on 1975.
• Some women used the extra time for leisure activities,
socialising and shopping
• Most other women used the time to take on part-time
work
• A downside was that their were higher expectations of
women to be good mothers, wives, workers, friends etc
• Magazines and television shows put pressure on women to
behave in certain ways – however over time magazines put
less emphasis on housework and more on celebrity
women.

19. • Based on the information I have told you about
….
• Could you create a timeline of what you think
an average day in the life of a married women
with children would be in the 1950s?
• The winner will be the one that is most realistic
based on the evidence we have but I also want
it to be quite creative and detailed – what will
you put in yours that others wont have thought
of?

20. Hannah Gavron’s Study
• 35% of working class wives and 21% of middle class wives
felt they had …….
• Working class women said they married to escape……
• ……. Of women did not know what their husbands earned
• Most felt that……was totally geared towards men
• Few women saw their ……as wife
and mother
• Most women regretted……
• Women did not protest against
what they saw as injustices
because…….
Dull and low paid jobs
Married too young
Role in life
education
62%
They thought it would not make
any difference
Not pursuing careers

21. How life for Women Changed 1939-75:
The Women’s Movement
Learning Objectives:
1. To know what changes occurred in the late 1960d
and 70s
2. To understand the exam questions and the mark
scheme

22. The Fawcett Society and the Six
Point Group
You need to create mini fact files on these two
groups:
1.You need to note what they campaigned for
2.When they were around
3.Their impact

23. The Women’s National
Conference 1970
The women’s groups came together in 1970 and held a national conference to plan an
overall programme for action for the women’s liberation movement.
They agreed 4 demands:
1. Equal Pay
2. Equal education and opportunity
3. Twenty-four hour nurseries
4. Free contraception and abortion on demand
They conference launched the women’s movement on the national scene. Opponenets
often shortened this to ‘Women Lib’. Over the next two decades its leaders campaigned
against discrimination in work and civil rights. They had a major impact on public opinion
through magazines, marches and public demonstrations
One of the most famous of protest gestures was the burning of bras. High heels and other
female clothing which these women argued were worn for the benefit of men.

24. Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer was one of the leading
feminist writers of the time and she wrote the
following two extracts
Source 17 and 18 page 476
The following extract was written by a delegate
for the Labour Women’s Conference 1969
What do you think Germaine Greer would have
thought about what the delegate said?
If she were to write a letter in response to this
women what do you think it would say?

25. This led to……New Abortion and
Divorce Laws
The women’s movement also led the campaign to legalise abortion.
Before the pill there was an enormous amount of unwanted pregnancies
among both unmarried and married women.
There was an estimated 200,000 illegal abortions per year in the early
1960s. These were in ‘backstreet clinics’ often in very unhygienic places
where infection and even death was a possibility
In 1967 after a large campaign the Abortion Act which came to law in
1968. Abortions were only available if two doctors agreed it was
necessary.

26. Divorce
Previously couples could only get divorced if their had been a
‘matrimonial offence’ such as adultery
The Divorce Act of 1969 – changed this and couples could now get
divorced on the grounds that there had been a breakdown on the
relationship – no one had to take the blame.
The Matrimonial Property Act of 1970 recognised that women were
very important in the house and as a result if they divorced the women
would get a share of the house and the family assets
the divorce rate rose by 3.5 times in the early 1970s with over 100,000
divorces a year.

27. Comparing two sources
• How far does source B make source C look
surprising? Use the source and your own
knowledge to support your answer. (9)

28. What were the key factors that led to
change?
• Firstly go back to your timeline and add in any
additional information that we have learnt
that could fit onto the timeline
• Also look at page 447 for new acts that were
introduced before the 1950s - how would
these have helped women?

29. • 478-9Look at cartoons on page

30. What were the Key factors for
changes?
• WWI
• Work
• Pay
• Welfare state
• Contraception
• Feminist writers
• Government laws
• Domestic technology
Can you explain how each of
these factors helped women?
What did it specifically help
them with? Give examples