Woman Sufferage
Suffrage, should women have it? That was the question that was being asked throughout Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The women’s suffrage debate was not new; its roots were in the 1830’s and 1840’s by the Chartists. The Chartists original women’s suffrage was unsuccessful. But it did not die. It laid low until the movement could have more support. That time came, and like most debatable issues women’s suffrage had people that were for and against it. Both sides had good strong points to support their issue. Let’s look into these issues in depth so they can be better understood. First, the anti-suffrage side shall be discussed and analyzed. One of the anti-suffrage’s stronger arguments was based around the fact that there was over one-million more women then men in 1911 in England. A newspaper article on an Anti-Suffrage Society meeting reported that a participant, Mr. Maconochie, objected to women’s suffrage because of this fact. (Document 11) This man thought this because allowing women to vote could throw off the entire balance of power because women would most likely vote differently than men. This sudden tilt in power could effectively throw the governments steadiness out of w
The pro-suffragists line of reasoning was the complete opposite of the anti-suffragist, obviously, and used facts to support their beliefs. One such fact was that women contributed to society and should in return have a say on how the society around them is controlled. (Document 1) The right to vote could enable women to have a say on issues that concerned them, instead of men who really had no idea on how women were disrespected. Women also started to contribute to war efforts in a non-militant way. Evelyn Sharp was a member of a suffrage society, and with in this society pro-suffragists contributed to the war efforts. This meant that they did have a hand in war efforts, which also meant they gained a better grasp on the war aspect of politics worked. This disproved the major argument of the anti-suffragists; women had no political experience. This was a major stepping stone on the road to women’s suffrage. However, the anti-suffrage supporters had an even stronger argument up their collective sleeve. this argument was women just started getting involved in politics and were inexperienced in the ways of politics. Mary Humphrey Ward stated that the world was a much more dangerous and complex plac
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