In 1933, by which point women held 100,000 jobs in teaching and 3,000 as doctors and in total made up 36% of the workforce, were bribed with 600K mark loans to quit and or not take up jobs in order to employ the men who lost their jobs via the Depression. This caused 15% of teachers and doctors to be fired. So the Depressions significance tolled in social aspect for women, as they had to abide by Hitlers ideology of women birthing the Aryan race. Meaning they abided by the propaganda policy of “Children, Church and Cooking” which entailed staying at home, emulating traditional German peasant fashion, fertility, not wearing make-up and to focus on finding the ‘ideal’ Aryan partner. 9/10 of young women were sent to farms where they lived under barrack-like accommodation under close supervision. …show more content…
This was significant due to the huge contrast in lifestyles as under Weimar Germany, women were very much free agents (before the Depression). In 1929, Elsa Herrmann described the ‘New Woman’ of Germany and how she “refuses to lead the life of a lady and a housewife”, instead formed her own path ambitiously. The golden age of Weimar culture often used the view of the ‘New Woman’ as a muse for German artist Otto Dix’s (1926) work ‘Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden’, an example of care free women who smokes and drinks publicly with no trace of orthodox femininity. For men However, or more specificly young men, the Nazis held strong significance in changing their political