society

• what did the rise in women's wages during the 80s stop at?

  2/3 of mens wages
• what did married couples being taxed separately mean?

  raised women's status and the emphasis on the individual
• what became more balanced between the genders?


  access to higher education
• how many women were in major's cabinet?

  2
• what was the contrast between attitudes towards immigration between thatcher and major?

  thatcher described britain as 'swamped' by immigrants, major stated that britain under him would be 'at ease with itself and all citizens'
• what was the cause of the 1981 Brixton riot?

  increased police presence and sus laws
• what did the scarman report find?

  racial disadvantage in employment and housing
• what was the result of the 1999 MacPherson report?

  met police institutionally racist
• what was the consequence of the 1988 The Satanic Verses?

  seen as blasphemous, demonstrations for its banning, burned in bradford, riots in Pakistan, Iran's religious leader issued a fatwa urging Muslims to kill Rushdie
• what was seen as morally wrong in gulf war?

  western troops fighting arab army, and being stationed in Saudi Arabia in peninsula holding Mecca and Medina
• who was victimised by unrest in the Balkans?

  Bosnian Muslims