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Women's rights

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Women's rights


At the start of the twentieth century, British women had no rights.
Poor women worked in very bad conditions.
Many women did not go to school and most people accepted the saying, “A woman’s place is in the home”.

In 1900, British women did not have the vote.
Some middle-class women worked as teachers or nurses, but they still did not have a vote.
In contrast, men could have no job or be criminals and have a vote.
A growing number of women thought this was very unfair and their leader was Emmeline Pankhurst.
Emmeline Pankhurst was born in Manchester.
She was a wife and a mother.

In 1889, she started her first political group with the help of her husband.


In 1903, she started the WSPU ( Women’s Social and Political Union) to fight for the vote for women.
The word suffrage means the right to vote so the newspapers called Emmeline and her followers suffragettes.
Because of their actions, many women went to prison from 1908-1913.
In prison, some women went on hurger strike because they were political prisoners.
The most famous nurse of this time was Florence Nightngale, born in Italy in 1980.She wrote books on nursing and she raised money for hospitals.At the end of the First World War, women who were more than 30 years old and who were married with a home got the right to vote.

WOMEN DID NOT GET THE SAME VOTING RIGHTS OF MEN UNTIL 1928!
ITALIAN WOMEN VOTED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 1946!


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