Arguments for and against the female suffrage

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	Arguments for and against the female suffrage
	Advantages Arguments for Female Suffrage Votes for women would improve the life of all women Australia and New zeland already had given women Voting rights and even the USA in some states women paid the same rates and taxes as men so they should be delegated the vote Many women already involved in politics at a local level e.g. boards of education	Disadvantages Arguments against female Suffrage Women and men had different sphere of responsibility men suited to work and women to the home most women either didn't want the vote or wasn't interested giving the vote to some women would mean giving the vote to all men Women didn't fight like men in wars
	Evaluation Were the Suffragists an effective movement?????Was the suffrage movement effective?Argumidibly the NUWSS wasn't effective because it failed to get the vote for women by 1914However the suffragists did manage to get women suffrage bills proposed to parliament several times between 1900-1914They also managed to keep women suffrage in the public eye at a a time when the government didn't want it especially prime minister AsquithWere the Suffragettes an effective movement?????They didn't achieve the vote by 1914Divided the women movement from 1909 onwardsviolence turned support away support of MPsHowever they were never forgotten through these actionsWSPU were effective campaigners publishing posters and leaflets

Arguments for and against the female suffrage

Advantages

Arguments for Female Suffrage
Votes for women would improve the life of all women
Australia and New zeland already had given women Voting rights and even the USA in some states
women paid the same rates and taxes as men so they should be delegated the vote
Many women already involved in politics at a local level e.g. boards of education

Disadvantages

Arguments against female Suffrage
Women and men had different sphere of responsibility men suited to work and women to the home
most women either didn't want the vote or wasn't interested
giving the vote to some women would mean giving the vote to all men
Women didn't fight like men in wars

Evaluation

Were the Suffragists an effective movement?????Was the suffrage movement effective?Argumidibly the NUWSS wasn't effective because it failed to get the vote for women by 1914However the suffragists did manage to get women suffrage bills proposed to parliament several times between 1900-1914They also managed to keep women suffrage in the public eye at a a time when the government didn't want it especially prime minister AsquithWere the Suffragettes an effective movement?????They didn't achieve the vote by 1914Divided the women movement from 1909 onwardsviolence turned support away support of MPsHowever they were never forgotten through these actionsWSPU were effective campaigners publishing posters and leaflets

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Arguments for and against the female suffrage