Change and Continuity: Votes for Women 0.0 / 5 ? HistoryASEdexcel Created by: IsabellaCreated on: 02-05-13 19:19 What schools did working class girls go to pre 1870? Factory schools, workhouse schools, charity schools, small fee paying schools 1 of 31 Education Act 1870 Allowed local authorities to build schools, compulsory education for ages 5-13, women could vote for and serve on school boards 2 of 31 What did the school syllabus often include? cookery, needlework and housewifery, in 1878 domestic science became compulsory 3 of 31 Education Act 1902 local authorities could build secondary schools, women weren't allowed to vote or serve on school boards 4 of 31 Who were middle class girls normally taught by? A governess or family member 5 of 31 By 1960 2 institutions had opened for women in London,what were they? 2 London colleges - Queens and Bedford 6 of 31 When did Cambridge award degrees to women? 1947 7 of 31 What jobs could working class women be expected to have? Domestic service, textile work, clerical 8 of 31 What jobs could middle class women be expected to have? architects, factory/workhouse inspectors, teachers, civil service 9 of 31 The Norton Case George Norton took all his wifes earnings, so she ran up her debts which he had to pay 10 of 31 Married Women's Property Act 1870 the right to keep earnings, personal property and money left to them in a will under £200 11 of 31 Married Women's Property Act 1882 Gave women control of money they brought into the marriage and earned afterwards 12 of 31 Sexual double standard men could have sex outside marriage, but women couldn't 13 of 31 1857 Divorce Act women had to prove their husbands guilty of bigamy, ******, **********, cruelty or long time desertion, men only adultery 14 of 31 Matrimonial Causes Act 1884 maintenance to wives whos husbands had been convicted of assault 15 of 31 Maintenance of Wives act 1886 maintenance to deserted women 16 of 31 Custody of infants act 1886 seperated mothers the right to keep their children 17 of 31 Summary Jurisdiction Act 1895 battered women the right to obtain a divorce 18 of 31 Contagious Diseases Act 1864 allowed police the right to arrest suspected prostitutes and examine them for STD's 19 of 31 Criminal Law Amendment Act raised age of sexual constent to 16 20 of 31 Seperate spheres philosophy idea that men and women belonged to seperate spheres, men = public, women = private 21 of 31 What happened in January 1881? 700 women could vote on Isle of Man 22 of 31 Women's Liberal Federation founded in 1886, promoted votes for women, concerned with womens suffrage, housing, health and education 23 of 31 Independant Labour Party founded in 1893, promote interestes of working class, had a women's section 24 of 31 Primrose League Conservative, founded in 1883, womens section formed in 1885 25 of 31 What women could vote in 1869 in local elections? single or widowed rate paying women 26 of 31 whencould single/widowed rate paying women vote for county councillors? 1888 27 of 31 When could married women who were householder occupiers vote in local elections? 1894 28 of 31 When could rate paying women vote in all parts of local elections? 1907 29 of 31 When was the first female Poor Law guardian elected? 1875 30 of 31 What did women earn back in 1907? The right to vote for and serve on school boards 31 of 31
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