My Summary Notes
Life in the UK - Chapter 2 - A Changing Society
The changing role of women
- In the late 19th and early 20th century, many women campaigned for the right to vote.
- Until 1857, a married woman didn’t have right to divorce her husband.
- Until 1882, a woman’s earnings, property and money were belong to her husband.
- In 1918, women over the age of 30 were finally given the right to vote and to stand for election to Parliament.
- In 1928, women won the right to vote at the age of 21.
- 51% of the population and 45% of the workforce in Britain are women.
- Three-quarters of women with school-age children are in paid work.
- 20% average hourly pay rate for women less than for men for same type of job.
- Girls leave school with better qualifications and there are more women at universities.
- It is illegal to discriminate against women at work because of their sex.
My Summary Notes
Life in the UK - Chapter 2 - A Changing Society
Migration to Britain
Huguenots came to Britain in the 16th and 18th centuries to escape from religious persecution.
In 1840s, Irish people migrated to Britain because terrible famine in Ireland. Many Irish men became labourers and helped to build canals and railways across Britain.
From 1880 to 1910, a large number of Jewish people came to Britain to escape racist attacks (called pogroms’) in what was then called the Russian Empire and from the countries now called Poland, Ukraine and Belarus.
In 1950s, centres were set up in the West Indies to recruit bus drivers.
In 1950s, textile and engineering firms from the north of England and the Midlands sent agents to India and Pakistan to find workers.
In 1960s, the number of people migrating from these West Indies, India and Pakistan areas fell because the government passed new laws to restrict immigration to Britain.
In the 1980s, the largest immigrant groups were from the United States, Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand.
1990s, In the early groups of people from the former Soviet Union came to Britain looking for a new and safer way of life.
Since 1979, more that 25,000 refugees from South East Asia have been allowed to settle in the UK
Today I attempted the Life in the UK test in one of the authorized centre.
I passed the test, yeah !!!
I am glad that I passed it.
I will share my experience and technique, post the study notes and key points in the next posts.
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GOOD LUCK !!!
