Gender and society
What Gender and society means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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The issue of female emancipation gained unprecedented momentum, with women demanding political enfranchisement, better employment opportunities and improved legal rights, challenging the traditional Victorian domestic sphere.
Women's rights and welfare campaigns, in which the 1950 Marriage Law banned arranged marriages and welfare campaigns targeted disease.
Women were confined to domestic roles, with limited rights and strict moral codes, ensuring conformity and suppressing opposition.
Topics that use Gender and society
- 1G Challenge and transformation: Britain, c1851–1964 – Challenges to the status quo, c1886–1914 (AQA A-Level)
- 2P The Transformation of China, 1936–1997 – The transition to Socialism, 1952–1962 (AQA A-Level)
- Establishing Franco’s dictatorship, 1938–56 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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