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Votes for Women in the UK (Representation of the People Act (Negatives…
Votes for Women in the UK
Representation of the People Act
The representation of the people act allowed all men over the age of 21 to vote and women who own land and over 30
Positives
Some women got the vote
Negatives
Not all women got the vote
Women were still not equal to men
Impact of WWI
On the suffrage movement
Both suffrage movements stopped their protests to help the war effort
Suffragists helped outing propaganda
The suffragettes protested to work in the munitions factories
Changing roles during the war
Women took over over 1 million jobs
200,000 jobs as clerks for the government
800,000 jobs in manufacturing
The representation of the peoples act was meant to allow soldiers and war veterans to vote after their service.
The suffrage movement
Suffragists (National union of Women's Suffrage Societies/NUWSS)
Successes
Got support of many liberal and conservative MP's
did it all peacefully
Got the conciliation bill
failures
Did not get things done quickly
Never got full partisan support
Failed to pass the conciliation bill
Methods
peaceful
Diplomatic
Letters
meetings
petitions
The suffragettes (Women Social and political Union/WSPU)
Methods
Riots
Set fire to things
Hunger strikes
Direct action
Successes
Allowed women to work in Factories
Got press's attention
Got the government to release prisoners
Failures
Negative press
Suffrage was portrayed as bad manner
Got arrested
Position of Women in the late 1800s/early 1900s
middle class
Couldn't work
forced to where restricting closing
Waist 2/3 natural size
Limited education
Expected to have lots of kids
Lower class
Women had to work
Had to have lots of kids
No voting
Work from a young age
Spend most of there lives pregnant
Arguments for suffrage
Parliaments decisions affect both men and women . So women should be able to vote for the MPs who pass those laws.
There are many single women and widows who bear the same responsibilities as men.
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