The closure of WW1 marked a significant period in women’s history. The franchise was extended to women over 30 in 1918, enabling them to vote in national elections. However, this was less than the ‘universal adult suffrage’ they had sought, and even by 1918, it would take a further decade to achieve this. The key debate over this achievement, however, is over the contribution of peaceful tactics. Even before the creation of a specific national suffrage movement, certain rights had already been gained by women.
Also I thought that the Suffragists played a vital role in getting the rights for women to vote because they proved to the men that they could protest and campaign without using violence or breaking the law, unlike the Suffragettes, who resorted to violence when they wanted their way or when they wanted to be heard. Before World War 1 there, were two groups of women that campaigned for votes for women and they were known as the Suffragists and the suffragettes. They called themselves the Suffragists because they were trying to mock the word Suffrage which means the right to vote. Then there were the Suffragists they were so different from the Suffragists yet they were so similar. Both groups of women were campaigning and fighting for the same thing, but the way they achieved the vote was very different.
Despite the publicity gained from this particular newspaper being quite derrogative towards the suffragettes, publicity was gained. It could be said that this made people realise that the Suffragettes were prepared to go to great lengths for suffrage. However, in reality if this particular paper was the only paper that a person read, all they would gain from reading this article is the fact that the Suffragettes are immature, reckless and quite frankly idiotic people who most definitely could not be trusted with the vote. We have to take into consideration that this source is not typical, being a conservative paper, addmitting that the action was a leap forward for the Suffraggettes would be kicking themselves in the teeth. Source 11 is an extract from Christabel Pankhurst's autobiography (Emeline's sister.)
What was the real purpose of Emily Davison’s actions at the 1913 derby? Emily Wilding Davison was a suffragette. The suffragettes where a group of women who fought for women’s rights. They wanted women to be able to vote and be treated as equals to men. Before the suffragettes there was a group of women who were called the suffragists.
It was under the leadership of Alice Paul. In order to convince President Wilson and Congress to pass a woman suffrage movement, they had to undertake radical actions. In 1920, due to the combine efforts of the NAWSA and the NWP the 19th Amendment was ratified. It gave women the right to vote. This victory was considered the greatest achievement by women in the Progressive Era.
After all, in countries such as New Zealand (1893), Australia (1901), Finland (1906) or Norway (1913) women got the vote before the war began, whereas others such as Denmark (1915), Iceland (1915), Holland (1917) or Sweden (1919) gave it to women during the war without being involved in it. (http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/womenww1_three.htm) Women did make steps when it came to labor, but many women also looked down on the working class feminists. They thought it was unnecessary, and women should have their own place in the home
Women won the right to vote in 1918 entirely because of the contribution they had made to Britain’s war effort from 1914. Explain why you agree or disagree with this view (24 marks) (do both) Women had won the vote through a combination of vandalism and peaceful protesting which had both swayed and captivated the public, but at the same time the acts of vandalism, although were captivating the media, were captivating it in the wrong ways, the WSPU, with their vandalism attracted newspaper titles such as in Birmingham Daily Mail ‘Suffragettes outrage at Handsworth Park’ and demeaning names such as suffragette which was a derogatory term created by the Daily Mail, whereas the NUWSS had their peaceful cause overshadowed and dowered by their more radical fellow feminist campaigners, the WSPU. The fight for female suffrage started as far back as 1851 with the Sheffield Female Political Association which was founded and submitted a petition calling for women's suffrage to the House of Lords. The suffrage movement though was not the only reason that women had started to get more rights in society. In 1834 women could be Poor Law Guardians, as there was no law against this, in 1869 unmarried women who were rate payers could vote in town council elections, in 1894 women who were married and unmarried could vote for parish and district councils and could belong to them and in the 1902 the Education Act at least one women had to be part of the council education committees and in 1905 there had to be at least on women in each local distress comitee.
The suffragette movement gave rise in Britain in 1860 by mainly middleclass women and it was a political struggle for women to be given the right to vote. The exclusion of women from the right to vote in parliamentary elections was the most striking example of inequality between men and women. In the 1860’s there were many ways in which women suffered inequality and discrimination such as married women not legally having the right to an independent existence. However this was mainly middle and upper class women as working class women due to daily struggles had to take on paid employment as well as her usual duties. However it is important to make clear that the women’s suffrage was not unique to Britain, similar movements had emerged in other countries in the second half of the nineteenth century.
3) This was a major accomplishment for all women who fought for equality B. Seneca Falls Convention 1) A convention in Seneca Falls New York organized by a group of Quaker Women discussing the role of women in society. 2) The Declaration of Sentiments was prepared by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. 3) Only 100 out of 300 signed but this was still another step forward for women. C. League of Women Voters (NAWSA) 1) Carrie Chapman Catt was a key woman in winning women’s voting rights. 2) In 1916 she revealed her “Winning Plan” and was backed by the House of Senate.
Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton gather women together and fought for their rights. They deserved to vote just like men did. They needed to prove themselves. To get their message across they formed the National Women Suffrage Association, in May 1869. This was an organization made up of only women.