Suffragette

The Suffrage - Word vs. Violence “I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.” This simple line written by Mary Wollstonecraft in her book A vindication of the rights of Woman (1758) produce a sentiment that many today takes for granted; The right for a woman to have power over herself, to live her own life and to vote. The sadness in this remark is that it would take another 160 years before all women in Britain over the age of 30 with the minimum property…

white collar jobs and in local politics. On the other hand, the Suffrage movements put the issue of votes for women on the political map. The Suffragists gained support, including that of many MPs, through their dignified methods of protest. The Suffragettes gained a mass amount of support from the hunger strikes and gained a lot of sympathy and publicity for the cause. Also, as argued by historian Marwick’s Reward Theory, women received the vote in 1918 as a ‘thank-you’ for their work in WW1.…

this plan group became the militant suffragettes and their motto was “Deeds not words”. Most people think of the women’s movement was somewhat like the African American movement. These two movements are completely different because only male African Americans were given basic…

During the 19th century, women had almost no access to political power. Despite this exclusion, women did not remain entirely excluded from the public sphere. From the “White Feather Girls”, to the suffragettes as well as the women's popular protests in Berlin, women worked to remain as involved as possible in the political sphere despite the many boundaries that faced them. From middle to working class women of all social statuses came together to help shape the society in which they lived as…

She was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement that helped women win the right to vote, and was dedicated to women’s general equality in public life. The speech “freedom or death” is a motivational speech that was given by Emmeline de Pankhurst to the people in Hartford, 1913. Her Emmeline’s…

disobedience the United States would not have progressed once more in such a great manner. Moreover this country, this amazing, modern country, ratified the 19th amendment in the early 1920s after countless years of disgusting suffrage. One famous suffragette, Alice Paul, stood for hours outside the White House protesting, had herself thrown in prison, held vigils at the White House, as well as even…

Although most agreed that child labor was an important issue at the time, it was not one that suffragettes prioritized. In spite of this, Kelley connected with this audience by relating her thesis to the suffragettes' values and priorities. By mainly focusing on girls in factories, Kelley automatically made her speech relevant to a female audience, especially one immersed in expanding women’s rights. Through…

Anthony, who was a Massachusetts teacher. Susan B. Anthony was an abolitionist, education reforming, labor activist, and a suffragette. She advocated greatly for the woman’s right to vote. She was a huge reformer and founded organizations such as the “American Equal Rights Association” with fellow reformer Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She then went on to become the Vice-President, and…

The 1970 Act only dealt with equal pay for the same work but in 1975 the EU directive on Equal Pay was passed based on article 119. In 1978, despite the passage of legislation to promote equal pay, women’s position in the UK was still worse than in Italy, France, Germany, or the Benelux countries in 1972. However, The Act has now been mostly superseded by Part 5, chapter 3, of the Equality Act 2010. The Equality Act 2010 legally protects people from discrimination in the workplace and in wider…

The Suffragette Struggle In her 1905 speech before the National American Woman Suffrage Association, social worker Florence Kelley fought for the abolishment of unfair child labor policies with the help of voters and petitions. In this fight, she depicts the horrible state of child labor throughout America, contrasting the “little white girls … of six or seven years” (29-33) from the women privileged enough to be in her audience, and speaks in both questions and exclamations, empowering her…