progress towards suffrage before 1903
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- Created on: 12-03-15 10:55
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- progress towards suffrage before 1903
- 1869- single women rate payers got the vote in municipal elections
- 1870- single women got the vote in elections to new school boards
- 1894- local government gave women the right to sit on local councils
- by 1900 there were around 1000 female elected Poor Law Guardians
- this included Mrs Pankhurst
- women began to establish themselves in universities
- and in professions such as medicine and law
- the development of new technology provided women with a whole new range of work
- such as typing pools, offices, telephone exchanges, elementary schools and department stores
- women's suffrage was the topic of many of many newspapers and magazines
- 200,000 signatures a year were collected in support of women's suffrage from 1870 to 1880
- speakers such as, Lydia Becker and Helen Taylor addressed meetings all over the country
- Richard Pankhurst attempted to introduce the first Women's Suffrage Bill in 1870
- the subject was debated in the House of Commons 18 times between 1870 and 1904
- every vote was in favour but in was never allowed to become a law
- the subject was debated in the House of Commons 18 times between 1870 and 1904
- this was because every bill that was raised was brought by an MP not a political party
- a private member's bill
- the liberal Prime Minister Gladstone and his government did not support the bills and therefore every bill was rejected before it could become a law
- 1869- single women rate payers got the vote in municipal elections
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