To what extent did the activities of the women’s suffrage movements influence the decision to grant the vote to women in 1918?

... Craig Bryson Ink Exercise - Women's Rights To what extent did the activities of the women's suffrage movements influence the decision to grant the vote to women in 1918? It was written in a book that " women are three fifths of a man", this quote comes from the bible, the book a whole religion is based upon. But are women equal to men? In the mid 18th century equality of men and women was unheard of, the position of women was extremely different of that today. Women of the time were second-class citizens. However the struggle for women's rights has an extensive history. Mary Wollstonecraft wrote the first published work on the topic in 1792. In her book entitled, 'Vindication of the rights of women', she noticeably challenged a society dominated by men, she argued that if a woman were capable of 'the gift of reason', they ought to be treated in

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