The Changing Role of Women
Role of Women Timeline:
- Suffragettes - Protest for right to vote and equal rights. Eg. Hunger strikes, marches and sit downs eg. in cafes.
- Emily Pankhurst, Suffragettes leader.
- 1920's, Flapper girls represented female rebellion (mostly women who had money)
- The War - women gained more independence.
- 1960's, 'liberation movement' eg. burning bras (more inclusive to different classes)
- 1970's, protest for equal pay. Media text example, Made in Dagenham.
- 1980's, Margaret Thatcher, first female prime minister.
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