Question 1: What can you learn from Source A about the reasons given by the.
Suffragettes for demanding votes for women?.
For a long time in Britain, men felt that women were incapable of having great responsibilities or carrying out any of the tasks that men did. They felt that important decisions and tasks should be left in the hands of men and women should carry on being common housewives. Women however, felt very different to this view and felt that they were as capable as men at carrying out tasks and having great responsibilities. They did a lot of campaigning to get the right to vote for government. .
Source A is a propaganda poster produces by the suffragettes in 1912 trying to persuade people that they were being unfairly treated and deserved the right to vote. This poster is very biased as it compares the best of women to the worst of men. This poster also shows that Suffragettes did not only use violence to make their point heard but used peaceful and clever tactics. This poster is very clever as it used past and present tense which is hardly unrecognisable in the poster. The Suffragettes give example of the great things women had accomplished such becoming nurses, doctors, teachers or factory workers and even mayors. But the truth was that there were very few female doctors and only one female mayor at the time. The clause at the top, "What a Woman may be, and yet not have the Vote" highlights how unfairly they were treated and it uses present tense. However, the real facts were that not many women had the jobs that the poster describes. There was only one women who was actually a mayor at the time and there were very few nurses. Most women were normal housewives and didn't participate in any sort of work outside their homes. At the bottom the poster gives examples of the worst kind of men such as lunatics, convicts, proprietor of white slaves and drunkards.
