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History - Revision Shortened (Reasons against women getting the vote…
History - Revision Shortened
Situation
Difficult to access higher education
Paid less
Give up work to marry
Rape legal
Reasons against women getting the vote
Don't fix what isn't broken
Many women didn't want vote
Women belong locally
Men represent wives voting
Men worry about outside the home
Women can't fight so no right
Suffragettes
Emmeline, Sylvia and Christabel Pankhurst, 1903
WSPU (Women's Social and Political Union)
Middle and upper class
Methods
Breaking windows
Chemicals in letters
Attacking paintings
Heckling politicians
Suffragists
Millicent Fawcett, 1879
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS)
400 branches by 1914
100,000 members by 1914
Methods
Letters
Petitions
Marches
Peaceful protests
Rallies
Propagnda
Reasons for women getting the vote
Rid inequalities
Countries doing it
All class men had the vote, landowning women still didn't
Women had responsible jobs, should be vote to
Not true democracy
Protect against immoral behaviour