The Electoral Strategy That Won British Women The Vote Analysis

“Ordinary Democratization: The Electoral Strategy That Won British Women the Vote,” by Dawn Langan Teele, outlines the path to women’s inclusion in voting. The reading conveys how the struggle, in which the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies formed a coalition with the Labour Party, eventually lead to women’s suffrage. By doing this, suffragists allowed women’s suffrage to be included in the 1918 Representation of the People Act. This path was not easy as it took years of hard work, determination, and the help of several political parties forming coalitions. The women and advocates for women’s suffrage were not deterred by the times and they fought for what they believed in. “How British Suffragettes Radicalized American Women” displays the important influence that the British suffrage advocates had on the later American suffrage supporters. Both articles are important because they give context to the struggle of advocating for women’s suffrage against great odds in a time of political standstill and convey the similarities between United Kingdom and United States in their quests for women’s suffrage. “Ordinary Democratization: The Electoral Strategy That Won British Women the Vote” is an incredibly …show more content…
The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies fought for the female vote through peaceful ways such as writing letters to Parliament and other committees (Gray, 1 & 2). This is similar to the way American women pushed their cause. American women, while working on other causes such as slavery and religion reform, grouped together to try to get women the right to vote in the United States. But, some British protest was somewhat violent as stated in the previous article. This is similar to American women in which some of them protested in violent ways as they saw this as means to stimulating their cause. British and American protests were similar in many