ABSTRACT
This chapter examines participation of women in political life in Weimar Germany in the light of their role in the society and economy of that time, and to question the contribution of the female vote to the rise of the Nazi Party and that party’s attraction for women. Female voters could hardly be unaware of the Nazis’ stance on the ‘Frauenfrage’. Women’s interest in voting waned at an earlier age than did men’s, and professional women tended to make frequent use of their vote while domestic personnel did not. Town-dwellers made more use of their vote than did country-dwellers. Countrywomen generally were less exposed to electoral propaganda than women in towns. In the absence of real emancipation during the Weimar period, the ‘Frauenfrage’ – feminism or anti-feminism – was not of primary importance in the formation of political opinion among either men or women.
