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Britain 1/3, Social developments - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Women tended to be deterred from working, especially after marriage and children
      - Widely believed that working mothers were detrimental to their child’s development
      - Family Allowance benefit paid by the government encouraged women to stay at home
      - Trade unions discouraged women in the workplace as they feared the competition would lead to the decrease in wages for men
      - Some middle class women benefited from the introduction of equal paper for teachers in 1952 and the civil service in 1954
- - - - By 1958 21,000 Commonwealth citizens had located to Britain
      - 75% were men supporting family back home
      - Majority from West Indies, then India and Pakistan
      - In the 1960s 1.2m came to Britain
  - - - Many moved to Australia and North America
      - Australia was keen to attract migrants and offered assistance with travel, jobs and housing
      - In the 1950s 1.32m Britons migrated
      - In the 1960s 1.92m migrated