external

• changes in womens employment explanation

  1970s equal pay gap makes it illegal to pay women less than men for work of equal value

  discrimination act makes it illegal to discriminate

  proportion of women in work risen from 53 in 1971 to 67 percent in 2013 women are breaking through the glass ceiling

  pay gap has halved from 30 to 15 percent since 1975
• girls changing ambitions explanation

  sue sharp

  girls had low aspirations and believed edu success was unfeminine and appearing to be ambitious would be considered unattractive. priorities were husbands marriage family. by the 1990s priorities were careers independence financially and themselves

  fuller

  says these girls saw themselves as creators of their own future and aimed towards professional careers
• changes in the family explanation

  increase in divorce rate

  increase in lone parent families

  women are more financially dependent link to fuller and the idea that girls are aiming towards professional careers
• impact of feminism


  50s to 70s womens role was housewives family marriage

  now its jobs education careers

  the feminist movement