Essay On Women's Suffrage Movement In The 19th Century

At the turn of the 19th century, life for the women in Great Britain was less than pleasant. Drowned in poverty, chores, demands from husbands, duties to the children, and without money or freedom, life as a British wife or mother was an absolute nightmare. In believing that women as a whole deserved more than just being servants and bystanders to corruption and oppression, they began to take a stand. The Women’s suffrage movements of the 19th and early 20th century had three primary goals: the right to vote, implementing changes to the female workforce, and improving the social status’ of female’s. By the end of the 19th century, the women’s suffrage movements were arguably the key to the eradication of the main gender differences between men and women. By achieving the right to vote, implementation of changes to the female workforce, and improvement of female social status, British women had undoubtedly changed the course of history and culture in Britain and Europe for …show more content…
Most of the problem lied in the age of Marxism and neo-Marxism of the late 1870’s to early 80’s. In the book Women Workers and Technological Change by Meta Zimmeck, Zimmeck says “Feminization is not ‘about’ women but ‘about’ capital and the working class.” (Zimmeck, 69). Zimmeck 's point is significant in that it shows that neo-marxism was very much for deconstructing and separating the skilled women from the unskilled women, which would explain why the majority of work women were engaged in was laborious, tedious and in some cases, dangerous. The interesting thing about the industrial revolution, though, was that new inventions were popping up all the time. So, when the typewriter was invented in 1890, neo-Marxists saw it as a revolutionary opportunity for women to attain more presence in the workforce. In particular, Zimmeck