When the war started in 1914, women’s suffrage stopped. Women were released from prison and all marches and campaigns were cancelled. They began to realise this was a time when their country needed them, so they began to work. To begin with, when the men went off to fight, they were not very pleased that women were going to be taking over their jobs. I have taken from source E, from the sheet ‘The Changing Role Of Women In Britain Since 1900’, some information to prove my point. ‘Attitudes to women workers remained negative. The ability of women to take on what had been men’s work meant that increasing numbers of males were vulnerable to conscription’.

However, as World War One continued, men began to see that without the help of women their country would’ve fallen apart. Women were beginning to gain respect.

When they gained the vote in 1918, many people assumed that it was because of their help during the war. But the

The British suffragette movement started many years before the war. They campaigned, marched, held meetings and rallies; they even used violence to gain the vote. But they didn’t get it until 1918. Towards the end of the suffragette movement, just before the war, many MPs were debating over whether or not women should get the vote. But when they started using violent methods many people decided that giving them the vote wouldn’t be a good idea, as it would bring more trouble than it was worth. However, when the war began and women started working and helping, many people began to see that they were not useless and in many aspects cleverer than men, even though no one admitted this.

Overall, I think that without the war, British women would have gained the vote but it would have been a lot later than 1918. During the war they proved to everyone and themselves that they could work and learn just as well as men. I think this is why MPs and the government decided to give them the vote. However, I think that women would have not gained the vote if they had not been demanding it for the last 70 years. Without the women’s suffragette movement and the suffragist’s women would probably have had to wait at least another 20 years for the vote. British women gained the vote in 1918 because of the War effort, but also because th

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