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The Suffragette Movement
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The Suffragette Movement
HISTORY
History
Since the Ancient Greece and the Republican Rome
- several restriction on the suffrage
Before...
- women excluded from voting
In the late 19th century
many women
-> asked for more rights
In the late 19th century
better education;
better working conditions;
the right of voting.
In 1903
Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter Christabel
Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)
to support suffrage legislation
The Suffragettes
carried out a series of actions to gain publicity for their cause
rude
moderate
came to nothing
when The First World War broke out
women became involved to work in fields and in factories
With WW1...
on 6th February 1918
the “Representation of the People Act”
granted the vote to women over thirty
Women gain the right of voting
- who were property owners;
- who graduated from British universities
.
Only in 1928 the franchise was extended to include all women over the age of twenty-one.
In 1979
the U.N. declared women’s suffrage as a human right.
In 1979
CURIOSITIES
Curiosities
THE SUFFRAGETTE MOVEMENT WAS ALSO A DIVERSITY MOVEMENT
there were several and different suffragette movements:
-> founded in the 1890s
THE AFRICAN SUFFRAGETTE MOVEMENT
A DIVERSITY MOVEMENT
->defend “their race” and the reputation of African American women
THE AMERICAN SUFFRAGETTE MOVEMENT
-> developed in the major cities (New York and Chicago)
->turned suffrage into a mass movement.
-> protect women’s conditions, especially at work.
WOMEN THRIVED IN SOCIETY
PROGRESS
THE VOTE AMENDMENT CAME IN DIFFERENT TIMES FOR EACH COUNTRY
In U.S.
-> have the amendment passed before the presidential election of 1920. In fact, it passed just 3 moths before the election
In France
DIFFERENT TIMES FOR EACH COUNTRY
-> women gained the vote just after the WWII
Saudi Arabia
-> was the last country that guaranteed the right to vote to women in 2015,
Vatican City is the only place where women’s suffrage is still denied today.
Progress (?)
Progress
After the suffragettes movement we made some progress
- the voting right;
- the gender pay gap has decreased;
- more women in higher-paid occupations;
- gender inequality in politics is decreasing.
- Girls outperforming at school;
- women enrol in higher education than men.
The job isn't done
The job isn't done
less than 1/3 of members of parliament are women
in poorer communities and for black women
Black girls
-> permanently excluded at school
in poorer communities & for black women
1/3 of black women
->have been unfairly passed over for or denied a promotion at work.
Achieving Gender Equality
leads to a multitude of positive outcomes for everyone:
Gender Equality
•stronger economy;
•higher levels of peace and stability;
•better health outcomes;
•more productive and innovative companies;
•and less poverty.
Empowering women
creates a multiplier effect by benefitting multiple generations as women tend to play a greater role in the health and well-being of both children and older generations.
Empowering Women
Reasons why Britains haven’t yet achieved gender equality
Why not?
- social norms;
- bias;
- stereotyping.
Survey research has shown that boys and girls as young as the ages of 7-11 have already established gendered career aspirations
boys are 20 times more likely to want to be an engineer or architect.
How can we continue to reduce the gender gap?
How can we continue to reduce the gender gap?
We know that social movements have played a key role toward shifting behaviour, attitudes, and policy on many social issues because they have the potential to build popular support and to apply political pressure on governments.