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This essay will be looking into the reasons why British women didn't have the right to vote before 1914. In the nineteenth century women were treated as second class citizens. They were given low paid jobs and most women were not even considered to have jobs. Most men and even some women believed that a woman's duty was at home with the kids. However some women broke through the barrier to get where they wanted this woman being Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first women doctor. It took women along time to get their campaigns to get the vote together. When the women finally got their campaigns together by the late nineteenth and early twentieth century there were two main campaigning groups. There was the NUWSS who campaigned peacefully and later became called suffragists and the WSPU who campaigned violently who later were called the suffragettes. Towards the end of...

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