Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: right tool of Nazi expansion

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123 a new employment relationship was created. "Therefore, it was two employment conditions, while the original employment ratio was ineffective during the duration of the new employment ratio and somehow rested." (326) The employment obligation for women Vl.nař.no.46/1941 Coll., unlike vl.nář. no.190/1939 Coll. newly introduced employment obligation also for women. Only mothers of children under 15 years of age living with them in the common household were excluded from the duty of employment if the work is not in agreement with the mother's obligations towards children, and pregnant women from the sixth month of pregnancy up to two months after lodging, while women's labour could only be ordered to do the work that women normally do. The first large wave of women's work was carried out since autumn 1942, when young men sent to the empire in the Protectorate industry were replaced. The introduction of 1924 was started in mid 1943, and young girls were fully affected. This evidently had a decisive effect on the significant increase in the number of women to be married up to 29 years. Later, marriage ceased to be an obstacle to forced labor, which led to an increased number of pregnancies. (327) The number of single mothers also increased significantly, from which it is possible to conclude that many girls seemed more tolerable to break social standards than to go to work in the realm. The failure of the workforce on the part of young women forced the authorities to seek other resources to replace it. In this way, the authorities were invited to examine to a greater extent the ability to employ a pensioner and a social rent holder. However, this attempt did not meet with too much success, of the total number of invited people only 8.7% were actually ordered. In some cases, specifically in the agricultural areas of the Protectorate, the deployment of women in protectorate industrial enterprises could also mean some improvement in their social situation. In Vsetín, some women asked the company management to work 12 hours a day in order to pay off their personal financial obligations.