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Title: The Campaign to win the vote


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The Campaign to win the vote
  • The issue of the vote became the focus of
    womens struggle for equality
  • Women had to fight for themselves getting
    little help from men

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The Campaign to win the vote
  • Chartists campaign earlier was rejected, debate
    re-emerged after 1867 Reform bill by John Stuart
    Mill amendment rejected
  • Women householders gained the right to vote but a
    further amendment of the third reform bill was
    also rejected by Gladstone

3
Why opposition?
  • Most Politicians were against reform fearing
    women would vote for the opposition
  • Labour Party wanted women suffrage especially for
    working class women rather than just property
    owners

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Why opposition?
  • Involvement in politics would threaten the family
    and society
  • Corrupt women making them less feminine
  • Too emotional and not educated
  • Attitude came From all social classes

5
Movement to gain votes 2 wings
  • Suffragists traced roots back to 19th century
  • Millicent Fawcett was the leader from 1887 of the
    NUWSS
  • Peaceful persuasion and education always within
    the law
  • Suffragists wrote pamphlets and held meetings

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The Suffragists
  • Exclusively middle class although acknowledged
    that support of working class women was needed
  • Gore-Booth sisters worked in the mills of
    Lancashire to gain their support
  • Many of the working class women however found
    themselves to be voices in the wilderness
  • Although many women were drawn together as never
    before, giving them an identity

7
The Suffragettes
  • Born out of the suffragist movement in 1903
  • Emmeline Pankhurst broke away from the NUWSS
  • Named the WSPU its motto was deeds not words

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The Suffragettes
  • The suffragettes were prepared to break the law
  • In 1906 politicians, suffragists and suffragettes
    met Campbell Bannermann
  • He informed them that although he was in favour
    of womens suffrage his cabinet were divided

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The Suffragettes
  • The suffragist response was to launch a campaign
    of leaflets the suffragettes on the other hand
    was to heckle MPs, marches, demonstrations which
    led to arrests
  • In 1907 women broke away from the WSPU to form
    WFL, the Pankhursts established an even firmer
    grip

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Militant tactics
  • By 1909 tactics had become more militant
  • Attacks on MPs, broken windows, chaining
    themselves to railings outside HOC
  • Opposition from press and the public increased,
    women were described as unfeminine, masculine and
    frustrated spinsters

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Militant tactics
  • Despite this by 1909 there was branches all over,
    the NUWSS had 13,000 members also
  • The movements were growing apart as the NUWSS
    believed that militancy was losing them
    supporters

12
Conciliation Bill and its failure
  • 1910- conciliation bill was drafted under Asquith
  • Bill was suspended which resulted in further
    campaigns
  • Failed in 1912 to get majority
  • WSPU committed to programme of violence

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Conciliation Bill and its failure
  • wild period paintings slashed, premises
    firebombed, death of Emily Davison
  • Hunger strikes
  • Did this do more harm than good?
  • Mens role

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Did the coming of war delay the franchise?
  • Asquith recognised that these women had genuine
    social grievances which could be tackled if women
    had the vote
  • In time it was argued that he would have brought
    in a bill to provide for universal suffrage
  • War however scaled down the activities
  • Women instead had to fill the jobs left by the
    men business as usual

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