example of other countries

• Women gaining the vote in Britain

  1918
• Women gaining the vote in other countries also helped some women get the vote in Britain in 1918
• Examples of other countries giving women the vote

  • New Zealand gave the vote to women in 1893
  • Australia gave women the vote in 1902
  • Finland gave women the vote in 1906
  • Denmark gave women the vote in 1915
  • Some American states had also given women the vote by 1917
• Examples of other countries giving women the vote

  Helped some women get the vote in Britain in 1918
• Reason 1


  The British government did not want to appear to the rest of the world as having a backward political system
• Reason 2


  No disasters had happened in the countries that had given women the vote and political systems remained stable
• Examples of other countries giving women the vote

  Did not help some women get the vote in 1918
• Reason


  Most British politicians would not have been influenced by other countries
• If British politicians had been influenced by other countries, then they would have got the vote on the same terms as men
• Examples of other countries giving women the vote

  Was important in helping some women gain the vote in 1918
• Reason


  Britain did not want to be seen as undemocratic
• The suffragette movement was more important because their extreme methods showed just how determined some women were to get the vote