Kinder, Küche, Kirche

Alliteration children, kitchen, church (also called the three K ) is a common expression after conservative values ​​describes the social role of women: they should therefore, to the education of the young, the housework and the mediation and compliance with moral principles as they commanded the church to take care of and teach.

By triggered by the women's movement, discussions and publications of this value concept was gradually abandoned after the Second World War. The term was allegedly coined by Kaiser Wilhelm II. However, the ideas about the fields of activity of the female members of society are much older.

In National Socialism, however, the phrase without the church addition was current. Thus spoke in September 1934 in a speech to the National Socialist Women's Organization, Adolf Hitler of the tasks of the German women that their world was the husband, the family, her children and her home.

In the educated middle-class postwar marriage were considered for the role of women often the three K " children, kitchen, chamber music ". When speaking after the year 2000 by the three K, as is often thought that children, kitchen and careers.