Women in Nazi GER - Reduced employment

Nazi methods to reduce women employment (5)

-1933 Law to reduce unemployment:

• Women excluded from highest levels of works- even doctors expected to only work as GPs etc

• 600RM loans for women who withdrew from labour market to marry

-Teachers could only work at lowest level in schools

-Reichstag emptied of women

-1936 Women banned from being lawyers or judges 

-Used foreign labour to reduce need for women (1/3 agriculture + war work foreigners 1944)

When was 1/3 of agriculture + war work done by foreigners?

1944

How much of agriculture + war work done by foriegners by 1944?

1/3

2 laws to reduce women employment

1933 Law to reduce unemployment:

• Women excluded from highest levels of works- even doctors expected to only work as GPs etc

• 600RM loans for women who withdrew from labour market to marry

1936 Women banned from being lawyers or judges 

What were women banned from 1936?

Being lawyers or judges

How much of a loan was given to women who left labour market to get married?

600RM

2 parts about women in 1933 Law to reduce unemployment 

• Women excluded from highest level of work

• 600RM loan for women who leave labour market 

When was

• Women excluded from highest level of work

• 600RM loan for women who leave labour market 

1933 Law to reduce unemployment

When were women banned from being judges and lawyers?

1936

Success of Nazis reducing women employment

-Large number of women lost their jobs

-Women reluctant to work

-No.of women in war work less than WW1:

WW1: Up 76%

WW2: Up 27%

WW1 VS WW2 no of women in war work

WW1: Up 76%

WW2: Up 27%

Limitations of Nazi reducing women employment 

-Single women still worked

-Promoted women when it suited them eg: women who flew test planes (militarism conflicting w/traditionalism)

-Foreign women expected to work

-Women went into war work

-Women directed propaganda films eg: Triumph of the Will