Women's Suffragettes Research Paper

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The life of a mermaid who ate fish every single day. and had fish sticks all day long and had this fish in the sick in the sing fish sing laugh play.In 1866 a group of women from the Kensington Society organised a petition that demanded equal rights for men and women. The women took their petition to Henry Fawcett (the blind MP who was in love with Elizabeth Garrett Anderson but married her sister Millie instead) and John Stuart Mill (the man who was a philosopher at twelve, and the man who married Harriet Taylor), two MPs who supported the idea of universal suffrage – i.e. votes for everyone, regardless of sex. Mill added an amendment to the Reform Act that would give women the same political rights as men, but it was defeated by 196 votes…show more content…
However, Fawcett and other NUWSS members also admired the courage of the suffragettes and were initially unwilling to criticise them. In 1905 the Liberal Party won the general election, and the NUWSS believed that women would now be granted equal rights with men. They were wrong. Millie had always been a Liberal, but she became increasingly angry at the party’s unwillingness to give full support to women’s suffrage. In 1908, Herbert Asquith became the Prime Minister. Unlike other high-up Liberal politicians, he was strongly opposed to granting women the vote. In 1912 Millie and the NUWSS decided to support Labour instead in the parliamentary elections. Even at its peak in 1914, the WSPU only had about 2,000 members. The NUWSS was a much larger organisation and in 1914 had 500 local branches and over 100,000 members. This shows (possibly) that women (and the men who supported them) tended to empathise with the less rampantly militant groups – perhaps because they were less controversial or less likely to land them in jail. The less confrontational groups might not have attracted as much attention as the suffragettes, but they didn’t upset or annoy people
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