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• Suffragettes led by Emmeline Pankhurst


  fought for votes for women taking direct action
• women workers were paid less than men

  no Equal Pay Act existed then
• The Titanic sank

  April 1912
• World War One

  1914-1918
• World War Two

  1939-1945
• Social class system in Britain was very strict

  pre WWI
• Society changed after WWI because

  men who had fought together wanted a better life afterwards
• Trade Unions and the Labour Party

  fought for workers' rights and better conditions at work
• Some women and all men got the vote in

  1918
• All women got the vote in

  1928
• Women had less power than men in a

  patriarchal society
• Men and women from different social classes rarely

  married
• Priestly wanted to create

  a social care system- the Welfare State
• Owen Jones, 21st century social commentator


  campaigns for equality and socialism
• The Beveridge Report of 1943 listed


  the 5 evils of society that had to change