changing position of women -
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- Created on: 25-03-14 15:07
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- Women's Public Lives
- Politcal System
- involvement in local governments
- 1869 Municpal Franchise Act -unmarried ratepayers to vote in municipal elections
- 1894 - Local Government Act -married women vote/stand in local elections
- assumption it would stop larger campaigns
- Education
- Education Act 1870 - women ratepayers allowed to vote for and serve on the new school boards
- Before - Churches, dame schools, charities provided education. lower classes missed out
- 1833 Factory Act - owners had to give a few hours of schooling each day
- Before - Churches, dame schools, charities provided education. lower classes missed out
- Lower Class
- some able to go toschools on scholarships, after compulsory education more attended but stopped after primary eduction as they needed to work
- Girls' Public Day Schools Trust
- 1880- Mundella's Act - attendance compulsory age 5-10
- 1891 - education in primary free
- 1902 Education/ Balfour's Act - Conservatives, abolished school boards, set up coutry authorities
- Middle/Upper Class- governess, reflected angel in the house/wife
- Education Act 1870 - women ratepayers allowed to vote for and serve on the new school boards
- Suffrage Campaigns
- NUWSS- 1897 - combined existing societies
- Millicent Fawcett
- Lydia Becker
- WSPU - 1903
- Pankhursts
- Pethwick-Lawrences
- Annie Kenny
- NUWSS- 1897 - combined existing societies
- Helping the Poor
- Poor Law Boards from 1875 - first women elected to serve on Poor Law Boards as guardians of the poor
- Workhouse Visitng Society1859
- 1850 -unofficial opening of some workhouses to visitors
- 1857 - formally recognised
- 1859 - visiting nationally organised - due to Louisa Twinnig (spearhead of committee for workhouse reforms)
- Politcal System
- Dorothea Beale - Cheltenham Ladies College - model for other schools
- Middle/Upper Class- governess, reflected angel in the house/wife
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