The Value of Women

Lesson Snapshot:

• Victorian women had few civil or political rights
• In 1866 a group of women took a petition, signed by 1,500 women asking for the vote to Parliament
• In 1903 Emmeline Pankhurst formed the ‘Suffragettes’
• By 1908 most MP’s openly supported the right for women to vote
• After 1910, the government faced other problems and many MP’s thought there were more important things to worry about
• In 1914, the First World War started, and the women’s leaders promised to stop campaigning for the vote and to help the war
• During the First World War, women worked alongside men to defeat the enemy

Worksheet Task:

• Aimed at Students studying across KS3 or equivalent
• Premium resource
• To decide whether women were treated equally in society before the First and Second World Wars
• Use as you wish in the classroom or home environment
• Use with other Industrial Age Worksheets & Resources
• Includes challenging questions