life in republican zone

• marriage code introduced in Catalonia , women given equal rights to men in terms of marriage and divorce
• Republican zone = first zone in Europe for a woman to occupy a cabinet position in government
• abortions legalised
• communist women against the Falange organised women to work as nurses and to staff creches and orphanages
• women led more liberal lives
• POUM militia made men and women equal
• sep 1936 - Largo Caballero passed decree that withdrew women from the frontline
• 1,000 women fought as part of socialist militia groups during the war
• working women recieved hostility from men who still had conservative views
• in anarchist areas , women workers organised themselves to take control of their workplace males who ran brothels shot and profits from sex work shared between workers
• falagnist priest , landlords and supporters of CEDA = killed
• buildings that symbolised old regime destroyed
• acts of terror decreased as republican gov gained more control over various zones in 1936
• CNT established courts to reduced acts of violence and terror to control people , terror broke out in areas with little control
• more than 6,000 priests , nuns and monks were killed in the region of Barbastro
• 80% of clergy killed in Catalonia , industrialists killed and in Aragon landowners killed
• Red Terror helped persuade church to support Nationalists - gave Britain a reason NOT to support Nationalists