While Stanley Baldwin’s government changed the law,there was no shift in the assumption of male supeiority and powerBy the 1930s, a third of women in the UK worked external the home – mainly in low-paid “womens jobs”, and such as caring and cooking. Economic depression reinforced the view that well-paid work should primarily be for men and that the proper place for women was in the family home,as unpaid workers.
In 1928, Stanley Baldwin and his Conservative government had allowed all women to vote when they reached the age of 21 – the same age as for men. “The subjection of women, or whether there be such a thing,will not now depend on any creation of the law,” he said. “It will never again be possible to blame the sovereign state for any position of inequality. Women will beget with us the fullest rights. The ground and justification for the old agitation is gone.”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk