Were Women and Men Eual?
Improve wages- conditions of life and protection
Equality
Women desribed as " a total ignorance to all domestic duties" "women by overwork"- utterly demoralised.
Mines- women 2 shillings, Men 3 shillings 6 dollars
Skillful women 16- 17 shillings, tough but non skillful men 18 shillings
Shoe maker- Men £1.43, Women half the amount
Printing- Women 61p, Men £1.84
Pays only repairing lost or ripped clothes, hospitality + cost of sickness.
Punishment Cells: Plank dark room, hand only let lose for food and bed but Suffragettes refused bed.- Intensley painful in physically and mentally.
Suffragettes tactics- "Illegal" activities, megaphones, extreme danger and chaining themselves to rails of Buckingham Palace.
Suffragists- Peaceful, Consitutional, Moderate, Calendars, Leaflets, Posters+ Public Meetings
Queen Victoria "Let women be what God intended, a helpmate for man, but with total differene duties and vocations."
- Created by: Maura Selvarajah
- Created on: 02-05-13 19:35
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