Reform Movements: Suffrage - Voting Rights for Women During the 1800s, a cult of domesticity idealized the middle-class woman as a mother who stayed at home taking care of her kids-and-husband. She did not have a role outside the home. Many middle-class women disliked these expectations and protested the restrictions on their lives. Particularly, women wanted suffrage, or the right to vote. VOTES WOMEN In Great Britain women's suffrage attracted attention when John Stuart Mill presented a petition in Parliament calling for inclusion of women's suffrage in the Reform Act of 1867, which was rejected. Later in the samé year, Lydia Becker (1827- 1890) founded the first women's suffrage committee, in Manchester. Other committees were quickly formed, and in 1897 they united as the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, with Millicent Garret FOR Fawcett (1847–1929) as president. British suffragists faced opposition. Some opposers believed that women were too emotional to vote responsibly and others believed that women belonged at home, not in the government. Frustrated by this opposition, some women became more militant, or aggressive. Emmelinc Pankhurst, assisted by her daughters Christabel and Sylvia, founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1903. Her followers, called "suffragettes," heckled politicians, practiced civil disobedience, or refusal to obey certain laws, and were frequently arrested for causing riots. In February 1918, women over the age of 30 reccived the right to vote. Suffrage rights for men and women were equalized in 1928. Adapted from: htlp:/cacherachulastis.com.aivitisuffrre history.htm 1. Although the women's suffrage movement was started by middle class women, explain why lower class working women might have supported the movement? Starting apart frmom the dnak of Wowa fiobti. evality in erms of cconomic and palitical and Smiot eginlity, nneac to reform the voting ruks. Which loods tham to Yate be Womn Sepfreg Strugg led for the liberty af aomen to vote in clecions both locola Slacheg Prom The nineteenth contury Mary hat it has been the indostral rovolution and ts fingnciol cossibil women to 3tort the most prominent and ddvonage allavedJthe working- Closs 2. Do you agree with the reasoning behind the opposition to the women's suffrage movement? e Explain your reasoning. le

Reform Movements: Suffrage - Voting Rights for Women During the 1800s, a cult of domesticity idealized the middle-class woman as a mother who stayed at home taking care of her kids-and-husband. She did not have a role outside the home. Many middle-class women disliked these expectations and protested the restrictions on their lives. Particularly, women wanted suffrage, or the right to vote. VOTES WOMEN In Great Britain women's suffrage attracted attention when John Stuart Mill presented a petition in Parliament calling for inclusion of women's suffrage in the Reform Act of 1867, which was rejected. Later in the samé year, Lydia Becker (1827- 1890) founded the first women's suffrage committee, in Manchester. Other committees were quickly formed, and in 1897 they united as the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, with Millicent Garret FOR Fawcett (1847–1929) as president. British suffragists faced opposition. Some opposers believed that women were too emotional to vote responsibly and others believed that women belonged at home, not in the government. Frustrated by this opposition, some women became more militant, or aggressive. Emmelinc Pankhurst, assisted by her daughters Christabel and Sylvia, founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1903. Her followers, called "suffragettes," heckled politicians, practiced civil disobedience, or refusal to obey certain laws, and were frequently arrested for causing riots. In February 1918, women over the age of 30 reccived the right to vote. Suffrage rights for men and women were equalized in 1928. Adapted from: htlp:/cacherachulastis.com.aivitisuffrre history.htm 1. Although the women's suffrage movement was started by middle class women, explain why lower class working women might have supported the movement? Starting apart frmom the dnak of Wowa fiobti. evality in erms of cconomic and palitical and Smiot eginlity, nneac to reform the voting ruks. Which loods tham to Yate be Womn Sepfreg Strugg led for the liberty af aomen to vote in clecions both locola Slacheg Prom The nineteenth contury Mary hat it has been the indostral rovolution and ts fingnciol cossibil women to 3tort the most prominent and ddvonage allavedJthe working- Closs 2. Do you agree with the reasoning behind the opposition to the women's suffrage movement? e Explain your reasoning. le