Source 14 shows this by saying it “broke the mould” implying that women were one step further into breaking their stereotype and more opportunities which were opening up for them, by sending some students on to Higher Education. There was a greater emphasis on academic standards which could be viewed as significant steps forward in providing girls with “different role models” and improving the opportunities available to them. This can be supported by Frances Mary Buss who could be a considered a new role model for these girls. She campaigned for girls rights to sit examinations and made large public speeches helping in the progression for women’s chances and breaking into the public sphere. There were educational reforms for middle and upper-class girls, with the establishment of new day high schools, such as The North London Collegiate School founded by Frances Mary Buss.
a) Outline and Explain reasons for the growth in singlehood in the contemporary UK. [15] Singlehood in the UK has grown over the years, for example, women born between 1946 and 1950, only 7% remained unmarried, however women born between 1961 and 1965, 28% of women remained unmarried, with a similar trend for men. The growth for singlehood could be for a number of different reasons. People are now taking advantage of the new divorce law, and the changing views on singlehood. People are also expecting more from marriage, and women especially are choosing to live alone due to feminist views.
Furthermore, girls in school were being encouraged to participate in more male dominant subject’s such as sports, and to aim higher in future career choices. Women also pursued better health care and position in law. Some major goals of feminist groups was to gain better access and development of birth control, and for a higher impartiality in court for cases such as sexual abuse. Equal pay was one of the most important issues the Women’s Liberation Movement confronted. The 18% of females employed in the 1960’s were only earning 70%
(Nash) More and more women were completing high school and gaining higher social status. (Brown) Most importantly, in August 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment was added to the Constitution, allowing women to vote (Sullivan). Despite continuing problems with jobs, women did gain many rights after the war that they did not
Judicial appointments commission- considers wider range of candidates now, therefore there’ are more judges from different social background and more woman are able to hold the position of a judge. Several successive ‘liberal minded’ judges have taken up senior positions, therefore the decisions of judges would be more neutral and independent as people from social background as well as different gender give wider opinion on any case as well as “liberal minded” judges would criticise the government and defend civil liberty better than judges from a very narrow conservative background, which might be bias towards government. For example, Lords Woolf, Hoffman and Bingham are all judges that are quick to criticise the government and defend civil liberty. Lord Chancellor had been removed from judicial function and now is just secretary of state for Ministry of Justice. These means that judiciary are more independent now as Lord Chancellor who is a member of government and therefore can be bias towards government on some cases can’t be one of the very senior judges as he used to sit as a judge in the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords before the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 Establishment of Supreme Court 2009 and abolishment of the appellate jurisdiction of the House of Lords, because of that jurisdiction became independent from House of Lords and therefore the decisions are more neutral as Supreme
Changing attitude towards women in Britain society helped women achieve the vote in 1918. It can be argued that women achieved the vote as they were beginning to be seen as making more intelligent decisions. The education of women had improved with universal education for boys and girls from 1870’s and women were more increasingly attending university. Women were also entering ‘white collar’ office jobs as well as traditional ones like nursing which proved they were able to be trusted with the vote. Arguably women achieved the vote as the social position of women was improving which helped erode male prejudices against them.
Mark Russell Victoria female barristers have called on the state government to lead by example and stamp out pay disparity with male barristers. They say the government must do more to boost their remuneration and retention rates, and encourage private firms to do the same. A woman briefed by a government department for a matter in the lower courts receives on average just 59 per cent of the fee paid to a male barrister, while a woman briefed in a litigation matter in Victoria's higher courts is likely to receive 75 per cent of a male barrister's fee. Private firms are briefing women in only 12 per cent of cases. Women are mostly given work in the stereotypical areas of family law, crime and Children's Court work, and many feel pigeonholed, according to Victorian Women Lawyers convener Astrid Haban-Beer.
The question to be looked at is ‘What does it mean to be a woman?’Although there has been some progress in the past 30 years, particularly in women’s education and employment equality, there are still many inequalities and also more inconspicuous issues affecting the women of today including domestic violence and rape and sexual abuse and I would like to look further into this. So, what does it mean to be female in today’s society? Though there has been some improvement in gender equality, women are still oppressed. Today’s women earn one-tenth of the worlds income, occupy only 18% of seats in the worlds parliaments, comprise two-thirds of the exploited informal workforce, and for women aged 15-44 gender violence accounts for more deaths and disability than cancer, malaria, traffic accidents and war (World Health Organisation 2005). Studies show women are paid less even when doing the same job with the same experience as their male counterparts
Higher Places in the World A. Allowing women to play sports has been proven to give them more opportunities in the work place than women who haven’t. B. Eichler, Leah (Hitting the Links: Why Augusta Matters) 1. During a survey of 4000 senior executive women it was found that 81% of female United States executives played sports during their schooling years. Playing sports in high school resulted in a higher attendance due to sports scholarships.
“In the 1970’s, woman entered the work force,” according to David’s article. This new era then began to transition the way marriage was viewed. People began to see that maybe they had married the wrong individual and set out to seek divorce. Divorce changed from rare to a routine. During the 1970’s, divorce rates had double (and the number of divorces tripled from 400,000 in 1962 to 1.2 million in 1981) (Ministries).