Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Votes for Women
- Suffragists (NUWSS)
- Tactics
- Peaceful demonstrations
- pamphlets
- Trained speakers
- Lobbying
- putting pressure on
political leaders
- Leader - Millicent Fawcett
- large membership growth
- 12,000 - 50,000 by 1914
- Suffragettes (WSPU)
- Deeds not words
- Tactics
- Violent protests
- unlady like
- smashed windows
- went on hunger strike
- force feeding brought sympathy
- cat and mouse act
- brought large
amounts of
publicity
- put off political figures
- "their cause has marched backwards - Churchill
- rift within group
- violence confirmed why
women shouldn't get the vote
- First world war
- women replaced
men in the work
place
- worked in munitions industry
- conductors on trams;
taxi drivers; in the
police; as dock workers;
shop assistants; as
typists and secretaries
- proved to be equal to men
- joined the army
- WREN's
- WAAC's
- social changes
- women had to adapt to the new ways
- social barriers broke down
- political changes
- coalition government
- supporters of woman's votes
- David Lldoy George
- social attitudes
- 20th century was a time of great social change
- new opportunities opened up for women
- with better technology
- Women had more freedom
- Women were being educated
- medical schools open for women
- involvement in local politics
- women gained right
over property in 1882 -
woman's property act
- town councils, Boards of
Guardians and members of
political organisation
- other countries - international pressures
- Britain would be embarrassed politically if the
'mother of democracy' was seen to be lagging
behind other countries
- New Zealand, Australia, Finland and
Norway had all given women the vote
- Part of a global phenomenon