How much change has there been in rights for women?
How much change has there been in rights for women?
The social media leads the stereotypical thoughts that society has about women. During the early 1900’s, women weren’t allowed to leave their houses and were domestic servants for their husbands. They couldn’t vote at all. If they were divorced, they would have been treated as an outcast and have no employment and would not be able to drive.
The Suffragists and Suffragettes used contrasting methods to try and get women the vote. The Suffragists methods to try and get the vote were peaceful as they took to the streets for promotional protests and set up stalls and handed out propaganda posters. They even sent petitions to Parliament.
However, many people ignored them, most of the time they would walk past and act as if the Suffragists didn’t even exist. This is because Queen Victoria, the lady with the most power, was sexist to her own gender, therefore the stereotypes about women being weaker and that their opinions didn’t matter was still kept as a traditional belief in Britain.
The Suffragettes engaged in a series of more forceful actions. Members chained themselves to railings, set fire to buildings and disrupted debates at the House of Commons. The leader, Emmeline Pankhurst chained herself to a railing in protest against the sexist justice system. The police were shocked and were forced to take her to prison.
Like many other members of her union, she went on hunger strike and refuse to eat or drink anything at all either in protest to women’s rights and because the conditions were unbearable and they wanted to die painlessly. However, the Government brought in force feeding so that the women stayed alive and served their full sentence and suffered the consequences.
This era represents the struggle that women had for equality, to be respected in society and to gain power. In World War One, women took up extra jobs that men didn’t want to do. They worked in weapons factories and some were
The social media leads the stereotypical thoughts that society has about women. During the early 1900’s, women weren’t allowed to leave their houses and were domestic servants for their husbands. They couldn’t vote at all. If they were divorced, they would have been treated as an outcast and have no employment and would not be able to drive.
The Suffragists and Suffragettes used contrasting methods to try and get women the vote. The Suffragists methods to try and get the vote were peaceful as they took to the streets for promotional protests and set up stalls and handed out propaganda posters. They even sent petitions to Parliament.
However, many people ignored them, most of the time they would walk past and act as if the Suffragists didn’t even exist. This is because Queen Victoria, the lady with the most power, was sexist to her own gender, therefore the stereotypes about women being weaker and that their opinions didn’t matter was still kept as a traditional belief in Britain.
The Suffragettes engaged in a series of more forceful actions. Members chained themselves to railings, set fire to buildings and disrupted debates at the House of Commons. The leader, Emmeline Pankhurst chained herself to a railing in protest against the sexist justice system. The police were shocked and were forced to take her to prison.
Like many other members of her union, she went on hunger strike and refuse to eat or drink anything at all either in protest to women’s rights and because the conditions were unbearable and they wanted to die painlessly. However, the Government brought in force feeding so that the women stayed alive and served their full sentence and suffered the consequences.
This era represents the struggle that women had for equality, to be respected in society and to gain power. In World War One, women took up extra jobs that men didn’t want to do. They worked in weapons factories and some were