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Women in Nazi Germany (Nazi policies towards women (The Mother's Cross…

- - - - Women should adopt an 'all natural' look.
      - Nazis never forced women to look a certain way but propaganda strongly encouraged it.
      - Encouraged to wear modest clothes, with their hair tied back in plaits or a bun.
      - They were discouraged from dyeing their hair or wearing makeup.
    - - Wanted women to stay at home rather than work.
        
        They believed that any woman in work could be taking a man's job.
      - Disapproved of women in professions such as medicine and the law.
    - - Birth rates should increase to make Germany bigger and stronger and make steps towards the 1000 year Reich.
      - They wanted women to have as many children as possible.
      - They stressed the importance of house-craft (needlework and cookery) to make women the perfect housewives.
- - - - Kinder (children)
      - Küche (kitchen)
      - Kirche (church)
  - - - E.g. they were taught housework, such as ironing, and other domestic tasks.
    - - The number of female students starting higher education fell from just over 17,000 in 1932 to 6,000 in 1939.
        
        It became more difficult for women to enrol as in 1934 the number of women allowed to enter was 10% of the total number of male graduates.