Change and Continuity: Votes for Women

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