Teacher Notes
THE CHANGING NATURE OF WOMEN'S WORK AND EMPLOYMENT:
INTRODUCTION
This resource provides a range of activities on the changing nature of women's work and employmentsince the start of the Twentieth century. It can be used in sections as a starter activity or over a series of lessons to discuss the main changes over the century. It can also be set as an extension exercise to reinforce lesson activities and it can be used as an independent learning activity by students of the WJEC GCSE specification.
The resource consists of a series of frames which are capable of being used on an interactive whiteboard where one is available – otherwise it is possible to make reasonable use of the resource with a laptop projector. As with all these resources staff and individual students can use the pencil and notebook feature provided to annotate the screen.
There are three set of resources provided:
- Overview – this focuses on changes covering the specification
- Change and Continuity – a series of frames covering the main elements of the specification
- Revision – a series of five frames identifying themes selected from the specification.
OVERVIEW: THE CHANGING NATURE OF WOMEN'S WORK AND EMPLOYMENT
The resource opens with an introduction overview frame showing three women at work at different periods:
This opening frame asks students to suggest ANYTHING they can about the main developments in the changing role of women at work between 1900 and 2010 based on their study of the topic or as an introduction to the topic. Here, as elsewhere in the resource, there is no one answer and a variety of responses can be generated from the students. In this frame further information can be found by clicking on the images.
To move to the next series of activities please click on 2 at the bottom of the screen.
These exercises are designed to allow the students to offer suggestions about the place of women at work and in employment. They are free to discuss and make any reasonable suggestions and again the pencil and notebook allows for annotation of the screen. By clicking on the INFORMATION symbol some suggested points can be seen to develop a closer focus on the appropriate issues. The students should be encouraged to discuss other aspects of the issue as there is no one correct answer. Students and teachers can continue to the next exercise without accessing the information bar if they so wish. The frames attempt to cover the main elements of the specification. Click on the arrows to consider further other issues on the changing nature of women's work and employment since the start of the Twentieth century.
CHRONOLOGY
The following activities focus on the chronology of the period.
This exercise is designed to promote a chronological understanding of the changing nature of women's work and employmentsince the start of the Twentieth century. After some consideration of the chronological clues in the image students should be invited to select and click on an appropriate decade that the source represents. Wrong choices are marked as such but the correct choice leads to a discussion of some of the factors that may be offered to explain the changing nature of women's work and employment in this period. The suggested reasons will come up in a random order each time the resource is used and students will be able to move them into a rank order appropriate to their views. To continue with the exercise click on the forward arrow and repeat the process to consider the other decades.
REVISION: THE CHANGING NATURE OF WOMEN'S WORK AND EMPLOYMENT
This resource provides revision style activities on the changing nature of women's work and employmentsince the start of the Twentieth century.
It comprises a series of five thematic factors affecting the nature of women's work and employment. It can be set as an extension exercise to reinforce lesson activities and it can be used as an independent learning activity by students. Students are asked to consider the impact of each theme (a note of caution here – these are themes selected by the author and DO NOT represent the fuller range of themes possible in this specification). Clicking on each image will provide some detailed revision notes.