Suffragettes for demanding votes for women?

For a long time in Britain, men felt that women were incapable of having great responsibilities or carrying out any of the tasks that men did. They felt that important decisions and tasks should be left in the hands of men and women should carry on being common housewives. Women however, felt very different to this view and felt that they were as capable as men at carrying out tasks and having great responsibilities. They did a lot of campaigning to get the right to vote for government.

Source A is a propaganda poster produces by the suffragettes in 1912 trying to persuade people that they were being unfairly treated and deserved the right to vote. This poster is very biased as it compares the best of women to the worst of men. This poster also shows that Suffragettes did not only use violence to make their point heard but used peaceful and clever tactics. This poster is very clever as it used past and present tense which is hardly unrecognisable in the poster. The Suffragettes give example of the great things women had accomplished such becoming nurses, doctors, teachers or factory

Question 3: Why, despite all the Suffragette activity, had the women not gained

When the First World War broke out in 1914, women played a major part in supplying food and clothes to the men at war. The war helped women a lot by proving they were able to carry out responsibilities just like men. It also proved to the government that they were reliable and loyal to their country even though their country weren’t as loyal to them.

In Britain, the subject of votes for women was an unpopular issue. Most common men and government MP’s were against the idea of giving women the vote due to the incidents and riots caused by the Suffragettes. Source D is an extract from Emmeline Pankhurst’s autobiography in 1912. Emmeline Pankhurst was one of the leading Suffragettes and took major roles in the activities of the WSPU. In this source, Emmeline Pankhurst justifies all the actions taken by the WSPU, as would be expected in her autobiography. She implies that the government were not doing their job properly as they should have been given the right to vote in 1906 when a “very large section” of the public was in favour for the votes for women campaign. She also states that the violent actions helped their cause by putting them in the news which was not done when they carried out their peaceful protests. She believes the governments actions towards the Suffrage campaign led them to fight for their cause, which is exactly what she says in her autobiography, “We will fight for our cause”. As this source is from Emmeline Pankhurst’s autobiography, it is a possibility that it is much exaggerated and the “very large section of the public” may not have been large at all. There is also a high possibility that she was very biased in her opinions as she is trying to justify her actions.

the vote by the outbreak of the First World War?

Overall, one of the main factors that women did not get the vote before the outbreak of the First World War was because the Liberals had plenty to think about, quite apart from the Suffrage movement. Women appeared to be the minor issue compared to the other problems that the Liberal government was faced with.

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