social + political position of women in 1900

• Victorian women has very few civil or political rights. A wife had to do as she was told. Until 1884, a wife was listed as one of her husband’s possessions.
• social position


  what women could or couldn’t do in society - in work, home or community. there were restrictions on women’s life that were not on mens
• Political position


  the right for women to vote- voting is having a say in how your country is run. women were forbidden to vote at parliamentary elections until 1918/1928