Votes for women

One of the tasks that we had to do this week was Answering 

these questions after reading an article about it. Here is the 

link to the article.

Votes for Women

1. How old do you need to be to vote in a general election 

in Britain today? 18

2. Why were women not allowed to vote in the 19th century? 

Women were viewed as house makers and it was said that 

husbands would take care of the political and financial matters 

of the family.

3. In which year did John Stuart Mill propose a bill to give 

women equal voting rights? 1867

4. What does the word ‘suffrage’ mean? The right to vote in 

political votes for elections.

5. What kind of protest methods did the NUWSS use?

Lobbying MPs, organising petitions and nonviolent demonstrations.

6. How did the suffragettes’ methods differ from those used by the 

suffragists? The suffragettes were not as peaceful having hunger 

strikes and lawbreaking.

7. What is Emily Wilding Davison remembered for? Throwing 

herself in front of the king's horse.

8. Explain what ‘The Cat and Mouse Act’ was. The Cat and mouse 

act let women leave jail when they were starving and they had to go 

back in when they had regained strength.

9. What did the suffragettes do from 1914 onwards and why? In 1914 

the first world war broke out and they suspended some of their protests 

to help the war affect. This gained them more support and proved that 

women were rational enough to vote.

10. In which year were all women over 21 given the same voting rights as 

men? 1928