Women
Even though still today women are often under- represented in various institutes it is difficult to imagine that only 90 years ago women had to fight for their right to vote. In many different ways women were regarded as second class. An error made by males of Great Britain in 1860s was to think that females were unable to make coherent decisions on their own. A man could make his own decisions, while a woman supposedly needed her father, husband or clergy to make up her mind. Some argued that if a wife or daughter were given the right to vote, the woman would not vote independent. It would also disrupt the family infrastructure. Husbands and wives would have more arguments. The home would suffer, and children would be left to fend for themselves. If the wife were given complete suffrage then the spouse would not hold domination in the household. This destruction to the family in Britain would cause chaos throughout the country, if not the world. So it could be seen that the granting of the vote to British women in 1918 was a great success and it was a crucial part of the emancipation of women. However emancipation did by no mean conclude in 1918 or indeed in 1928 when the age restriction on women voters was abolished. Emancip
Harold L. Smith, The British Women's Suffrage Campaign, Addison Wesley Longman , New York Asquith's move was influential, and several others mentioned the importance of women's war work as an influence on their views. In addition the Coalition Government brought more suffragists into office such as Labour's Arthur Henderson and the Conservative Lord Robert Cecil alongside some already in office such as Sir John Simon. However the sympathy of politicians towards women should be regarded resentfully since they realised that women would soon win the vote and as a result, they did not want to lose their Parliamentary seats (Pugh ). The issue of women's suffrage was brought back on to the political schedule as the Cabinet attempted to find ways of bringing men back on to the electoral register since many had left their homes, not only to fight but to work in other industries. As the life of Parliament complete in 1915 and an election looked likely, the subject was of immense importance. Therefore the war involuntarily re-opened the suffrage debate and an all-party Committee advised in 1917 that women should get the right to vote (Pugh).The House of Common voted 341 to 62 that women over the age of 30 who are householders, the wives of householders, occupiers of property with an annual rent of 5 L or graduates of British universities could vote. ation never did conclude. Still today there exist "safeguards" to combat sexism although it is certainly debatable as to whether this is real or imagined. But in contrary to the past inequality today is increasingly difficult to perceive. 'since the War began . . . we have had no recurrence of that detestable campaign which disfigured the annals of political agitation in this country, and no one can now contend that we are yielding to violence what we refused to concede to argument.'
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