Women were mostly the centre of all events.
Women were even more in control of when their families begun the Contraceptive Pill to prevent pregancy was available at first in Family Planning clinics and later in 1974 on the NHS free. Abortion was also legal in 1967 this stopped desperate women having riskyly lethal 'backstreet' abortions. Women now able to plan their lives with guaruntee that no unexpected preganicies could shattered their dreams and lives.
Now that women were able to go further with their education this led more intellectual women . Schools were still teaching Girls and Boys seperate subjects because of their sex and women were still found difficulty reach senior poistions. In 1975 The Sex Discrimination Act stopping discrimination in advertising, education and employment and the Equal Opportunities Commission was set up. In the same year the Employment Protection Act stopped a women from being fired because she was pregnant. But these only applied to the full time women worker.
Women began the Womens Liberation Movement campaigning for Women's Rights and sexual equality.
Feminists were setting new challenges for womens minds they burnt their bras and wearing plain baggy clothing in the name of freedom from comformity and the social rules. The Womens Liberation Movement let women express their opinons concerning the injustices they faced in a predominatly male society. Stereotypes about feminists surfaced that they were men-haters and lesbians.
Everywhere people were being brainwashed through the media with stereotypical ideas of women. Adverts, films, t.v, radio and articles filled with women cleaning their house with a new cleaning brand, marrying a wealthy man and having a family, women having the dinner ready for their man with glittering sterling sliver cultery and perfect tablecloth spread. These ideas influenced women and girls alike.
Acts were introduced for the protection and to aid in the struggle for gender equality.
Women being abused by their husbands now could be protected by the courts by the Domestic Violence Act 1976. The Married Women's Property Act 1964 allowed women to retain half the money they saved from housekeeping. The Matrimonial Homes Act 1967 gave husbands and wives alike equal occupation of their home.
Even though 1 in 10 marriages failed resulting in divorce womens contribution to housekeeping had to be taken into account when the family assests were drawn up by the lawyer.
In politics women were still pursuing their goals, Barbara Castle was Minister for Employment and Productivity between 1964 and 1970.
The National Housewives Register was made in 1960.