Women and employment

• Nazi propaganda revived the concept of the ‘three Ks’, an idea dating from the Kaiser’s time, which encouraged ‘Kinder, Kuche, Kirche’ (children, kitchen and church)
• Women were banned from professions such as teaching, medicine and the civil service, 360,000 had left these professions by the end of 1934.
• From 1936, women could be judges or lawyers, and grammar school was closed to girls from 1937.
• Girls attending university falling from 17,000 in 1932 to 6,000 by 1939.