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• impact of feminism

  • Since 1960s, feminists challenged stereotypes of women in families, work, education, law. 
  • Rights improved self-esteem of girls = learn more, helping women to be more ambitous and hard working
• changes in the family

  • higher divorce rates + more lone mothers (as breadwinner) means girls have more role models of financial independence 
  • encourages girls to focus on their own careers, relying less on partners, so they try harder in school
• changes in women’s employment

  • 1970 equal pay act + 1975 sex discrimination act, part time jobs benefiting women 
  • proportion of women in work = 54% in 1931 and 67% in 2013
  • however, world economic forum announced it would take 202 years to fix gender pay gap