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Why did a campaign for women suffrage develop in the years 1870 - 1914?
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Why did a campaign for women suffrage develop in the years 1870 - 1914? Throughout the course of this essay I will explore the harsh life that most women faced during the nineteenth century and the uphill struggle that proved to be triumphant in the twentieth century. Life was unbearable for the female of our species during the nineteenth century. The status for women was appalling and all men shared sexist views. Women had no rights. They were forced into saying, doing and even thinking what men wanted them to think. They had no legal standing and no bearing in the make up of contemporary society. Before the push for suffrage in 1870, women had no legal status. Any money a married woman earned from her job would legally belong to her male spouse. As did any of her children and any property or other form of inheritance that...
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