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3) Women had not yet gained the vote by the outbreak of the First World War despite the Suffragette activity for a number of reasons. These include Suffragette activities being too violent, prejudice, the government having to deal with other, more important issues, no political party totally supported women's plea, women weren't united and there was also a fear that women voters would outnumber men. Source D suggests that men just didn't want to give them the vote - plain and simple - prejudice. Emmeline Pankhurst argues that "We called upon the government to give us the vote but they didn't" even though "there was a very large section of the public who were in favour of women's suffrage". This alludes to the fact that women were denied the right to vote by discriminative, but powerful men that held influential positions in the government. Similarly, source E also...

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