Britain - Women's Emancipation

Question 1

Women’s Emancipation

Answer 1

• Women’s war effort
• Women’s suffrage movements
• Changing attitudes to women
• International pressure

Question 2

Intro (Emancipation)

Answer 2

• “We regard women as something to admire, to love, she is the silver lining which lights the cloud of mans existence”
• 1918 some given vote, 1928 women same standing as men
• Structure; background, this factor… others are, this essay believes, link

Question 3

Changing Attitudes to Women (Emancipation)

Answer 3

• Acts allowed freedom (Local Government Act 1894, taxpayers + property owners), baby steps being made
• Freedom in rising children (Custody of Infant Act 1873), more equal chance in society
• • Universal Primary Education 1870s Act, saw as responsible and trusted

Question 4

Women’s War Effort (Emancipation)

Answer 4

• Worked to help nation WW1 (700,000 employed making munitions), helped any way they could
• Campaigns women’s rights groups pushed idea women doing their bit (WSPU encouraged men to fight and women to demand right to serve), trying to help, showed valuable
• • 1918, women respectable 30+, workers teens and twenties

Question 5

Women’s Suffrage Movements (Emancipation)

Answer 5

• Growing support (National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1909-6,000 but by 1914-53,000), More people behind cause
• Hands on = more publicity (Women’s Social and Political Union, Emmeline Pankhurst, “Deeds not Words”), provoked pressure on government
• • Negative publicity, Emily Davidson and King’s Horse

Question 6

International Pressure (Emancipation)

Answer 6

• Image at risk (‘Mother and leader of democracy’, standing up to tyranny in WW1), hypocritical
• Other countries already given (New Zealand 1893, Australia 1903), couldn’t be seen as leader of democracy
• • Countries catching up in economic power already given vote, some US states

Question 7

Conclusion (Emancipation)

Answer 7

• Judgment and reasons for

- Other factors in order (reasons why)