Women's suffrage

• Causes

  • did not have the same rights as men as women's place was domestic life
  • law favoured men- men could file for divorce, own property
  • Working class women normally had to work but paid left, still expected to raise children
  • Many felt equality and campaigned
• Millicent Fawcett and NUWSS

  • elected president of NUWSS
  • only way to campaign for votes was to obey the law
  • Leaflets and pamphlets, meetings and marches
• 1903 women's social and political union founded
• Arguments of woman's suffrage

  • equality
  • representation
  • democracy
• Oppostions

  • women too emotional
  • women didn't fight in war and shouldn't have the vote
  • Ideology of separate spheres
• pankhurst and WSPU

  • peaceful methods
  • illegal tactics like breaking windows, arson, not paying taxes, chaining themselves
  • led to frequent rebels
  • Hunger strike and gained sympathy
• Short term

  • argued the work that women did drying the war got them the vote not the suffragettes
  • 1918 representations act
• Long term

  • did not get equal employment
  • Ford Dagenham factory went on strike- equal pay act passed In 1970
  • Abortion act 1967
  • Divorce act 1969
  • Contraception available in 1974