Britain: Why Women Were Granted The Vote

Question 1

Changing Attitudes: Martin Pugh

Answer 1

“…their participation in local government made women’s exclusion from national elections increasingly untenable.”

Question 2

Changing Attitudes: Sarah Sewell

Answer 2

“The profoundly [well] educated women rarely make good wives or mothers…nor do they enjoy the interesting work of attending to small children.”

Question 3

Suffragettes: H.I Peacock

Answer 3

“in general they did little to further the cause. They annoyed and embarrassed the government whose support they had to win.”

Question 4

Suffragettes: Lord Robert Cecil

Answer 4

“The cause of Woman Suffrage is not as strong in this House today as it was a year ago, and everybody knows the cause. Everyone knows that the reason is purely and simply that certain women have broken the law in a way we all deplore…”

Question 5

War Work: Gifford Lewis

Answer 5

“The highly skilled and dangerous work done by women during the war was probably the greatest factor in the granting of the vote to women.”