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An 8 page
paper which examines how women’s experiences, in Great Britain, during WWII led to
greater opportunities in post WWII. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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the courts, and the House of Lords...It was interesting to find, on the frescoed walls, many historical scenes in which women had taken a prominent part. Among others there was
Jane Lane assisting Charles II. to escape, and Alice Lisle concealing the fugitives after the battle of Sedgemoor." In addition, "Six wives of Henry VIII. stood forth, a solemn pageant
when one recalled their sad fate. Alas! whether for good or ill, women must ever fill a large space in the tragedies of the world" (Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1898).
The fate of women in the halls of history has generally been, as Stanton stated, the depiction of tragedy for one reason or another. However, there has always been struggle
for equality as well. "Historically, the United Kingdom and the United States provide characteristic examples of the struggle for woman suffrage in the 19th and 20th centuries. In Great Britain,
woman suffrage was first advocated by Mary Wollstonecraft in her book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) and was demanded by the Chartist movement of the 1840s" (Women
Suffrage, 2004). Shortly thereafter the struggle for womens suffrage was taken up by liberal intellectuals as well. Most "notably by John Stuart Mill and his wife, Harriet. The first
woman suffrage committee was formed in Manchester in 1865, and in 1867 Mill presented to Parliament this societys petition, which demanded the vote for women and contained about 1,550 signatures"
(Women Suffrage, 2004). There was "The Reform Bill of 1867" which "contained no provision for woman suffrage, but meanwhile woman suffrage societies were forming in most of the major cities
of Britain, and in the 1870s these organizations submitted to Parliament petitions demanding the franchise for women and containing a total of almost three million signatures" (Women Suffrage, 2004).
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