Key Measures Attempted
- Financial incentives such as birth grants and marriage loans
- Improved maternity services
- Propaganda to boost self-esteem and status of mothers, such as the Mother's Cross
- Higher taxes on childless families
- Stricter penalties for abortion
- Restrictions on contraception information
- Sterilization of 'undesirables'
- Men encouraged to have affairs and more children
Successes
- Birth rate rose, but slowly declined afterwards
Limitations and Failures
- Nazi eugenic processes limited population
- Birth rate still below that of Nazi Germany
Area 2: Reduced Employment
Key Measures Attempted
- Women were given marriage loans to leave their jobs
- Businesses were encouraged to hire women before men
- Women in top civil service and medical jobs were dismissed
- Women were banned from being judges or lawyers
- Many women conformed to the Nazi policies and became typical housewives
- Marginal impact on the female employment, mainly in professions
- During the war, women were less mobilized than in the US or the UK
- Number of women in employment rose
- Increased further during the war
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