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Stereotypes After Ww1

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Nevertheless, employers did not believe that women were as productive as men, despite the fact that they did precisely that during the war. Many women were forced out of their jobs after the war. Women who refused to leave were actually met with public outrage. Some women were pushed back into their old role of housewife. Nevertheless, there were two victories for women after the war: first, the Representation of the People Act in 1918, which gave women over the age of 30 the right to vote, and second: the instalment of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919, which made it illegal to exclude women from jobs based on their gender (Adie 2015). The Suffragette movement finally received the recognition it had been seeking after over a decade
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