Women’s Right to Vote

... Nick Graham 11WS Women's Right to Vote 1) The main reason why the Suffragettes wanted the vote is that they believed that it was unrationable that women didn't have the vote, even though they had extremely responsible jobs like Mayors and doctors. This source is a very persuasive poster, as it gives examples of the very irresponsible jobs that some men do, such as a brothel keeper and a drunkard. The female jobs that are shown cover a wide range of classes from working class factory workers to the upper class as illustrated by the Mayor. The covenance of the source tells us that the Suffragettes who usually used militant methods wrote it, and this is more characteristic of the Suffragist movement. The examples shown in the source are very biased as they pick out the worst possible jobs that men did. From the source we can learn that women must be

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