Changes for women in Weimar Germany

Changes for Women in politics

- given the right to vote in 1918

- by 1932 112 women were in the Reichstag + 10% were female

- more rights for women

Changes for women in work

- women went into paid work during WW1 but afterwards it went back

- women were paid less than men

- women expected to give up work after marriage

- large employment in retail and service

Changes for women in leisure

- greater earning power: more independence for young, single women

- women less interested in marriage, more interested in a good time

- behaviour of 'new women' not likes by others who felt traditional values were being lost

Opposition of new women

- some men thought it was inappropriate

- some said women should focus on being mothers