Starter : What can you infer from this picture about the status of women in the first decade of the 20 th Century? jM

What was it like to be a woman in 1910? By the end of the lesson you will: 1.All be able to provide an adjective or description of life for women in Most of you will be thinking about how women might feel about their position 3.Some will be analysing why this situation needed to change in the wider context of earlier lessons

Women’s employment in Devon before MarriedUnmarried Domestic servants07,611 Dressmakers33 Teachers37, Lawyers12,6980 Doctors3,4423,293 Do these figures look correct to you? If not, what do you think they should look like?

Copy these figures out. What do the figures tell you about the role of women in the time before WWI? MarriedUnmarried Domestic servants12,69837,558 Dressmakers3, Teachers3363,293 Lawyers00 Doctors33

As you watch the 3 clips that follow, make notes / spider diagram about the status and expectation of women up to the outbreak of war.

5f-6z_o The life I lead – Mr Banks

3TW07bo Sister suffragette

hfo&feature=relatedhttp:// hfo&feature=related The Victorians (58 mins)

What can you learn from this cartoon about the position of working class women?

Mary Wollstonecraft Many in the 19 th and early 20 th Century thought that a girl's education should aim at making her useful to and supportive of a rational man. Mary Wollstonecraft said that education, independence and the need to struggle would help women break away from this mould. Josephine Butler Josephine Butler helped increase the legal age of sexual consent from 13 years to 16 years, and to help women with venereal disease. At this time, women were not meant to discuss sex or relationships, and there was a double standard of expectation of the sexually experience man, but the inexperienced woman.

Caroline Norton Mrs Norton became active in demanding changes to British law. Upon entering into an abusive marriage she had become painfully aware that legally women were "non- existent“. They could not divorce a man on equal grounds. The publicity that she generated including her appeal to Queen Victoria helped change the situation for married women and child custody in England. Florence Nightingale In 1860 she established St. Thomas’ Hospital and the Nightingale Training School for Nurses. She made the role of nursing respectable for women of all classes. Before Nightingale, nursing was more often associated with drunks and prostitutes. You didn’t go in to a hospital ward if you were wealthy. You would be nursed by a respectable woman at home. Most wealthy women were not meant to earn a living.

Life for us at the start of the 20 th Century was …… We feel …… We would like change and a political voice because ……. Life for us at the start of the 20th Century was …… We feel …… We would like change and a political voice because …….

What was it like to be a woman in 1910? Now check that you have: 1.provided an adjective or description of life for women in Thought about how women might feel about their position 3.Analysed why this situation needed to change in the wider context of earlier lessons