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Bisma Shahid Loan Professor Schilling 27/2/03 Militancy as a Strategy in the Women's and Worker's Movement In both the women's movement and the workers movement, militancy played a very important role in furthering the cause and making the government stand up and take notice. The women and the workers shared very similar circumstances, although both these classes came from extremely different backgrounds and social statures. While the workers were mostly oppressed people who were paid a pittance, the women mostly belonged to the middle and upper class and were more at ease in their drawing rooms pouring teas rather than out on the streets protesting, skirts aflutter. The Women's Rebellion, which was commonly known as the Suffragette Movement was from 1910-14, was when women suddenly found themselves from years of being second-class citizens and having to live under the shadow of their husband or father. As Daingerfield says about the Suffragette...

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