Describe and Explain the Impact of the Emancipation of Women on Fertility Rates.
Describe and explain the Impact of the emancipation of women on fertility rates.
The First Female emancipation movement took place at the end of the 19th Century and was common to see women in the workplace at that time. Women were given a freedom that only men shared before, such as voting, a higher education and careers. This movement of freedom of women was mostly recognised in Western Europe (and Western society). A good example of how this freedom of women impacted fertility rates in this corner of the world is the UK.
Industrialization in the UK in the late 19th Century led to the sexual freedom of working class women by offering employment opportunities for them outside the home. The women rebelled against traditional rules and wanted pleasure and success in open sexual activity. In the absence of birth control, increased sexual activity inevitably meant more children and an increase in fertility rates.
Advances in medicine introduced a form of birth control in the early 20th Century, resulting in a decline in birth rates and simultaneously, fertility rates. However, just after this, the declaration of a World War was at hand, and Western Europe was in deep conflict for 5 years. After this period of conflict, men were reunited with their husbands/boyfriends and began to procreate in higher numbers, leading to an extremely high number of births per woman and an increase in fertility rate.
During the second World War, because a vast number of men from the UK were out fighting in the War, there were barely any births since there were no men around to procreate, and many women were at home either protecting the children or helping the war effort in some way or another, putting their minds off reproduction and focusing it on Patriotism.
Nearer the end of the 20th Century, the number of women in a career increased , so those women who were married to a full time working husband, could also work, and earn a disposable
The First Female emancipation movement took place at the end of the 19th Century and was common to see women in the workplace at that time. Women were given a freedom that only men shared before, such as voting, a higher education and careers. This movement of freedom of women was mostly recognised in Western Europe (and Western society). A good example of how this freedom of women impacted fertility rates in this corner of the world is the UK.
Industrialization in the UK in the late 19th Century led to the sexual freedom of working class women by offering employment opportunities for them outside the home. The women rebelled against traditional rules and wanted pleasure and success in open sexual activity. In the absence of birth control, increased sexual activity inevitably meant more children and an increase in fertility rates.
Advances in medicine introduced a form of birth control in the early 20th Century, resulting in a decline in birth rates and simultaneously, fertility rates. However, just after this, the declaration of a World War was at hand, and Western Europe was in deep conflict for 5 years. After this period of conflict, men were reunited with their husbands/boyfriends and began to procreate in higher numbers, leading to an extremely high number of births per woman and an increase in fertility rate.
During the second World War, because a vast number of men from the UK were out fighting in the War, there were barely any births since there were no men around to procreate, and many women were at home either protecting the children or helping the war effort in some way or another, putting their minds off reproduction and focusing it on Patriotism.
Nearer the end of the 20th Century, the number of women in a career increased , so those women who were married to a full time working husband, could also work, and earn a disposable