Explain the Lack of Success of the Movements for Women’s...

The lack of success of the movements for women’s suffrage in achieving their aims by 1918 cannot be held accountable to solely one reason due to the abundance of causes for this. Voting, however, was not the only area where women were subjected to inequitable treatment: in1850 women were regarded as second class citizens. It was common belief that their brain was smaller than their male peers and they were therefore provided with very little or no form of education which, consequentially, meant that jobs for women were unskilled and low paid. Many professions would not employ a female as it was considered that a woman’s place was in the home. Politics was an additional area where women were uninvolved. Political parties (except†¦show more content†¦From 1850 women were starting to gain educational, civil and, to an extent, political equality. Due to the Municipal Franchise Act of 1869, single women were entitled to vote in local elections and by 1870 they could be elected onto school boards. This shows that women could take part in politics but not to the degree men could. Socially, changes in law were directly effecting women in a positive way, education was available to them with 1870 Education Act ensuring girls received the same level of basic education as boys. Emily Davies was instrumental in the changes in education for girls, she was on the London School Board and Schools Inquiry Commission and firmly believed girls should have the right to a decent level of education. In her 1866 book, The Higher Education of Women, she states that women should be able to â€Å"find out what they could do† and Chrystabel Pankhurst (a suffragette) argued that â€Å"ability is sexless†. Other women were highly prominent in education and work like Florence Nightingale who travelled to study to become a nurse which was completely against the societal code for affluent young English women and the Bronte sisters who used androgynous name s (Charlotte became Currer Bell, Anne became Acton Bell and Emily became Ellis Bell) so they would not have their work ignored due to their gender. Marital law also underwent changes: theShow MoreRelatedOne Significant Change That Has Occurred in the World Between 1900 and 2005. Explain the Impact This Change Has Made on Our Lives and Why It Is an Important Change.163893 Words   |  656 Pagesmode of escape from oppression and poverty and, in many instances, as an avenue toward advancement for an unprecedented number of people that soared well into the hundreds of millions by century’s end. But for a clear majority of these migrants, movement was coerced by flight from war and oppression or was enticed by labor recruiters who preyed on the desperately poor. The prospects for the great majority were almost invariably lives of drudge labor in urban sweatshops, on tropical plantationsRead MoreComparison Between Japan and Russia13811 Words   |  56 Pagesa peaceful nation and to establish democratic self-government supported by the freely expressed will of the people. Political, economic, and social reforms were introduced, such as a freely elected Japanese Diet (legislature) and universal adult suffrage. The countrys constitution took effect on May 3, 1947. The United States and 45 other Allied nations signed the Treaty of Peace with Japan in September 1951. The U.S. Senate ratified the treaty in March 1952, and under the terms of the treaty, Japan