The Changing Role Of Women

Question 1

Who created the NUWSS (national union of women’s suffrage societies) and when?

Answer 1

Millicent Fawcett

Founded in 1897

Question 2

Who created the WSPU (women’s social and political union) and when?

Answer 2

Emmeline Pankhurst

Founded in 1903

Question 3

What was a generally held view in the later 19th century?

Answer 3

‘Second class citizens’ - physically, mentally and mortally inferior to men

Question 4

How much of the nation’s workforce were women according to the 1851 census?

Answer 4

33%

Question 5

How many women employed making munitions?

Answer 5

700,000

Question 6

When was the equal franchise act introduced?

Answer 6

1928

Question 7

What did the equal franchise act do?

Answer 7

Granted equal boring rights to women and men. As a result both men and women could vote at the age of 21. This increased the number of women eligible to vote to 15 million

Question 8

Why did women not have the vote by 1914?

Answer 8

Many men did not have the vote before 1914.

Also opposition from the politicians and general public.

Question 9

When was the representation of the people act introduced?

Answer 9

1918

Question 10

What did the representation of the people act do?

Answer 10

Have 8 million ‘respectable’ women over the age of 30 who met at least one if the following requirements:

We’re either a householder or the wife of a householder.

Lived in a property with an annual rent of £5.

Was a graduate of British university.