society in the 1970's

what was spare rib?

• it was a feminist magazine published 1972-1993

• bibical refernce to eve

• distubted to whsmiths and menzies

• assocated with anti captilaisim. peace movement and left wing causes

• aimed to be intersectional

when was the first international women’s day?

1977

What happened after the women’s liberation meeting?

wome’s liberalsiation groups sprang up all over the country to show support to women

what happened at the miss world contest of 1970?

disrupted by women lin orgnaisations as they saw it as objectifing women

what happened in march 1971?

• both london and liverpool there was strikes demanding for equal pay to women and free nurseries

what did radical feminist women believe?

• that women were being oppressed by a patrioarchial society

• campagining for reproductive rights

• limit contact with the patrioarchy

what did socialist feminists believe about women?

• identified an independant class to womes inequality

• campaigning for women to have finiancial indepedance

what changed for womens rights?

• the pill was now avaliable on the NHS

• a rape crisis centre was opned in london 1976

what were women allowed to due to the domestic violence act 1976?

Allowed women to take restraining orders on violient partners

why was the sex discrimination act passed?

• end discrimination againist men and women on basis of their gender or matrial status

• this was aimed to ensure that there was equality or opportunity in field of enployemnet and education abd outlawed harrassment

what did the sex discrimination act involve?

Set equality opportunities commission

set to oversee both sex discrimantion act and equal pay act

• bringing court prociddings for those who commit an offense

how did this improve women situation?

• 1971: women were able to take a mortgage out by themselves without a male guarantor

• barbara castle→ set up the state earning pension scheme which meant that it gave geniousity to women who earn

• employement protection act: paid maternity leave and outlawed dismissial on pregnancy grounds

• women wage went from 59% compared to men in 1970 to 70% in 1977

how did the situation worsen for women?

• trade unions tended to dominate by men

• suspicions remained that women in the work place would supress the wages of the men

• TUC published the ‘ equality for women within trade unions’

• the equal pay act did not solve the problems of women being treated equally as they would be given another job which would therefore make this not comparable

what did the race discrimination act of 1971 mean?

• it restricted the right of people from the new commonweath from coming to Britain→ they would need aleast one grandparent born in britian and a guaranteed job

• there was still a steady flow of immmigration from the indian subcontinent (India, Pakistan and Bangladesh)

Who was idi Amin?

• he was the dictator of Uganda

• he persecuted ugandan asians and expelled them

what happened to all the Ugandan refugees?

• Many of those moved to Britian as they had a British Passport they were expectations for the immigration act

→ 28,000 arrived in Britain

→ a rush from bangladesh after it’s breakway from pakistian in 1974

How many new commonweath immigrants was there by 1974?

• over 1 million

how was political representation for those in those people?

• it was very low → e.g in london borough council there were only 10 non white representative

• BY 1978 THERE WERE 28

what did the labour party pass in 1976?

• Race Relations Act which o the basis tried to tacle discrimmination on the base of race

• It established the the commission for racial inequality which had the power to insitigate investagations and to comped witnesses to appear in front of it

what was the national front?

A political party founded by john Tyndall to oppose to non-white immigration

where did the national front become very active?

in parts of London where immigrants had settled such as brick lane and Southall

how members did the national front have by 1976?

20,000

how many candiates did the national front put up in the february 1974 election?

90

what was the national front in terms of its influence in british political by 1977?

It became britain 4th largest political party

what did the conservative announce due to the national front being popular amoug the public in the late 1970’s?

They announced that they would have harsher immigration policies further to help stop limit the immigration coming into britian

what were the stragegies of the national front?

was to hold marches and they would do it in areas of high immigration

How many incidents were there with the council of east london reporting between january 1976 and august 1978?

over a 100 incidents including 2 murders

assults and robberies of asian and africian caribbeans rose by a third

what were skinheads involvement in the marches?

They were violent against people with any ethic backgrounds ‘Paki-bashing’

What was the Rock against racism?

It was stated in 1976 as a reaction to comments made by the rock guitarist Eric clapton in aupport of enoch powelll

• there were huge demonstrations and concert held in Trafaralgar square in april 1978 which attracted 100000 people

• it was headlined by the clash and drew on reggae and ska influences as well as punk rock

what was the distrust between the police and the ethnic minorities?

• 1976 there were only 70 police officers with black or ethnic minorities background in the met police out of a work force of 22,000

• toung people often felt that police were harrassing them unnecessarily

• 1976 the hostility was erupted with a riot with over 300 people were injuired abd following that there was calls to ban the event

the death of blair peach

He3 was a a teacher and who was killed by plic3 when a demonstration was blocked by the police and it took unitl 2020 for the met police to admit responsibility for his death.