How can I use this website?

For teachers:

• As a starting point for research.
• As a source of images.
  
• To gain inspiration for thought provoking classroom activities
  
• For curriculum links.

For students:

• As a starting point for research
  
• As a source of images

What can I find on this website?

• Images
• Classroom Resources
• Reading Lists
• Information Sheets

How is the website organised?

The website has been organised into four chronological periods: pre 1914, First World War, Second World War and post 1945.

For each chronological period there is an image gallery and a short piece of text which explains women's roles in society at that time.

In addition, five main themes span the 20th and 21st century.

• A woman's place is in the home
  
• Women's work: war work
  
• That's no job for a woman: the services
  
• War babes: stereotypes, pin-ups and prejudice
  
• You have no right: protest and equality

Each theme has a corresponding image gallery.

The classroom resources have been created according to these themes.

They are in PDF format and can be downloaded to print.

What areas of the curriculum is the website relevant to?

• Key Stage Three
• GCSE - Oxford, Cambridge and RSA / ED EXCEL
• A-Level
• OCR - AS and Alternative S

Key Stage 3

• QCA Document Unit 16 The Franchise: why did it take so much longer for British women to get the vote?
• Who was campaigning for votes for women?
• Why did women gain the vote in 1918 and not before?

GCSE - Oxford, Cambridge and RSA

GCSE History B (Modern World) From Section B Specification Content document.
British Depth Study
Key question: How was British society changed, 1906 - 1918?
Focus Points: What were the arguments for and against female suffrage? How effective were the activities of the suffragists and the suffragettes?
How did women contribute to the war effort?
Why were some women given the vote in 1918?

GCSE History C (British Social and Economic History)
The Changing Role and Status of Women c. 1840-c.1990 Thematic Study D.

Key Question 2: Why were some women given the vote in 1918?
Focus points: For what reasons did women want the vote, and why was there opposition to this?
How important were the activities of the Suffragists and Suffragettes in winning the vote in 1918?
To what extent did work done by women during the First World War contribute to a change of attitudes towards women's suffrage?
What other factors contributed towards women being given the vote in 1918?

Key Question 3: How significant was the impact of the two World Wars on the role and status of women?
Focus points: How different was the contribution made by women in the Second World War compared to their contribution in the First World War?
What were the attitudes of employers and trade unions towards women at work during and immediately after each war?
What evidence is there that attitudes towards women and the family were changed by the two World Wars?
Which war had the greater effect in changing women's role and status?

Key Question 4: How much change had occurred in women's roles and status by the end of the twentieth century?
Focus points: How far did the position of women change in the inter-war period?
How different were women's roles and status at the end of the twentieth century compared with Victorian Times?
How important has the availability of convenient and easily available contraception been in changing women's role and status?
How important have other factors been in changing women's roles?
Were women equal to men by the end of the twentieth century?

ED EXCEL

GCSE Assignment - Changing role and status of Women since 1945
Unit: Campaigns for women's suffrage, 1870 - 1918

A Level

OCR
England in a new century 1900-1918.
Key issues: what obstacles were there to changes in women's suffrage?

For relevant pages from the Specification document, see separate sheets from www.ocr.org.uk

AQA

AS Unit 1, A2 Unit 4 and A2 Unit 6W European/World History
Alternative K

AS Module 3: Aspects of British Economic and Social History 1870 - 1950
A2 Module 4: Economic and Social History 1870 - 1979 Section A: The Changing Role Of Women, 1870 - 1979

AS Unit 2, A2 Unit 5 and A2 Unit 6W British History
Alternative R

AS Module 2: Britain, 1895 - 1918
Nature and extent of the challenges posed by the First World War as exemplified in changes in the role of women, social class, the economy, cultural, moral and religious beliefs and practices.
Key Question: In what ways did the First World War initiate or accelerate social, economic and cultural change?

Alternative S

A2 Module 5: Maturity, Change and Crisis in the British Economy and Society, c1830-1914
Women and work, involvement in manufacture and agriculture; the development of the professional woman; women's domestic role as wives and servants; women's involvement in trade unions; the growth of the suffrage movement.
Key Question: How significantly did the social and economic roles of women change during this period?