Votes for women
Votes for Women c1900-1928 Coursework Objectives 2 and 3 1. Study Source What can you learn from Source A about the reason given by the Suffragettes for demanding votes for women? ... The poster argues that women may have high profile and professional occupations but they cannot vote in general elections. ... Lastly there is a cripple who should not get the vote because he is unfit to fight for his country and does not pay tax like some women. This means that he can have a say in what women’s taxes are spent on. Over the past century the role of women in society has changed a great deal for the better. ... This meant that some women where working harder then men so why should they not have the vote? This Suffragette poster is putting across the message that women who work in high profile professions do not get the right to vote but men who have not got a clue have a chance to vote. The main aim of this Suffragette campaign poster is to show that the only reason why women were not allowed to vote was because they were women. ... Source B is from a book written in 1907 called “Women or Suffragette” by Marie Corelli. ... In Source B it claims that women should not have the vote because “…. women were…destined to make voters rather than…be voters…. ... Both sources show signs on why women should not be able to have the vote. ... This tells us that women are incapable of controlling themselves and it is correct that they should not acquire the right to vote. ... The woman that wrote Source B gives a reasoned argument for why women should not take part in an election because as she is a woman she does not want people believing that women are incapable of casting their vote just that they should not have the vote. ... Partridge makes us see women as whining and nagging characters and would want us to take this stereotype seriously. ... ” These quotes both tell us that women where seen as people that where incapable of many things so they would not be able to cast their vote sensibly. Also both sources hint that there were not many women involved in the campaign. In Source B the book is called “Woman or Suffragette” and this is trying to imply that if you where not a Suffragette you where a women, obviously there was many more women. ... ” This also indicates that there where not many women for the Suffrage Movement. In Source C the women that seems to be for the movement is quite bizarre and everybody knows that ‘normal’ women to not behave in that manner and the majority of women are not like this. Overall it shows that countless women were not battling for the right to vote. ... The main difference is that in Source B it stats that women only had themselves to blame in not obtaining the vote while Source C tries to hold the campaigners back by telling them of the Suffragette’s violet and wild tactics. ... Study Sources D and E and use your own knowledge Why, despite the Suffragette activity, had women not gained the vote by the outbreak of the First World War? Even though the Suffragettes had campaigned hard to gain the vote for women it had never been passed by Parliament. Maybe all members of Parliament thought like this particular one in Source E and believed “In giving women the…vote we will put the control…of this country into female hands.” If they did think like this it was no wonder that women had not gained the right to vote by 1914.