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    Votes For Women - Year 9 History End of Year Project

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    This document provides background information on the early campaigns for women's suffrage in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It discusses how women initially had few rights and were treated as second-class citizens. It then outlines the growth of women working in factories but still facing gender inequality. Early feminist campaigns focused on education and property rights for women. The suffragists movement emerged, led by Millicent Fawcett and the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, which advocated for women's right to vote through peaceful means like petitions, but their bills failed to become law.

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    This document provides background information on the early campaigns for women's suffrage in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It discusses how women initially had few rights and were treated as second-class citizens. It then outlines the growth of women working in factories but still facing gender inequality. Early feminist campaigns focused on education and property rights for women. The suffragists movement emerged, led by Millicent Fawcett and the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, which advocated for women's right to vote through peaceful means like petitions, but their bills failed to become law.

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    This document provides background information on the early campaigns for women's suffrage in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It discusses how women initially had few rights and were treated as second-class citizens. It then outlines the growth of women working in factories but still facing gender inequality. Early feminist campaigns focused on education and property rights for women. The suffragists movement emerged, led by Millicent Fawcett and the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, which advocated for women's right to vote through peaceful means like petitions, but their bills failed to become law.

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    Votes For Women - Year 9 History End of Year Project

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    Aoife Roper
    This document provides background information on the early campaigns for women's suffrage in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It discusses how women initially had few rights and were treated as second-class citizens. It then outlines the growth of women working in factories but still facing gender inequality. Early feminist campaigns focused on education and property rights for women. The suffragists movement emerged, led by Millicent Fawcett and the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, which advocated for women's right to vote through peaceful means like petitions, but their bills failed to become law.

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    Year 9 End of Year History Project

    Votes for
    women
    By Aoife Roper
    THE BEGINNING

    • In the beginning of the 20th century, a very few women around the world had
    suffrage (the right to vote) and many were treated as second class citizens

    • In the 19th century, there was a growth in factories meaning the availability of
    jobs for women increased. BY 1911, 600,000 women worked in the textile
    industry alone whilst others were maids, cooks, shop assistants or secretaries
    THE BEGINNING

    • This didn’t mean that women were valued more in society in fact it was the
    complete opposite
    • It was believed that men were still superior in their everyday lives. Men and
    women were expected to have very different roles during their life.
    • Men were seen as leaders and full - time wage earners whilst women were
    meant to spend their time at home looking after and raising children as well as
    doing all housework and cooking. There was no time for self care
    EARLY CAMPAIGNS FOR WOMENS
    RIGHTS

    • The 1868 Taunton Report had shown that girls and boys have an equl mental
    capacity but many still believed that a woman’s nature was to be irrational and
    emotional
    • People continued to believe that if a woman was too clever then it would make her
    ‘unmarriageable’ or it would affect their fertility – this led to a restriction in female
    education
    • However, others argued that a woman did not need to vote as they had their
    husbands or fathers to be able to vote on their behalf
    • Many women also believed that a woman’s opinion and involvement in politics went
    against the traditional gender roles that had already been set
    EARLY CAMPAIGNS FOR WOMENS
    RIGHTS

    • Luckily, the early feminist campaigns improved the right to women’s education
    and property rights. In Britain by 1864, 12 secondary schools had been
    established and in 1878, the University of London began giving degrees to
    women
    • But on the other hand, equal voting rights for women remained the same
    whereby women were not allowed to
    • In 1893, New Zealand became the first country in the world to allow the right
    for women to vote. This filled British women with hope for the suffrage cause
    THE SUFFRAGISTS

    • The suffragists became known when Millicent Fawcett merged previous


    women’s rights movements into the National Union of Women’s Suffrage
    Societies (NUWSS)
    • Fawcett believed that being able to win the right to vote would have to be done
    in a peaceful manner – through writing petitions and logical arguments in
    debate
    • The suffragists argued that, as Parliament made laws that women were required
    to obey, women should have a say in making those laws
    THE SUFFRAGISTS

    • These women were risking their employment and reputations my being part of
    NUWSS campaigns however by 1914, the NUWSS had over 100,000
    members.
    • Unfortunately, none of the bills that the NUWSS persuaded politicians to
    introduce to Parliament were passed into law

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