Why women failed to gain the vote between 1900 and 1914?

The wo manpowers balloting movements were originaly from the United States during the 19th Century. In colonial America, as elsewhere(Austrialia and red-hot zealand in the world curiously Britain, civil law did non manage the equality of men and women. some men thought that many women were a waste and can never be good as men. During 1900 and 1914 a char had no legal rights. A married womens belongings belonged to her husband, this include earnings as well as all her property and goods. in other words she was like a mere object in the mans hands.To todays standards this is completely outrageous, in todays society women can expect to be coiffe exactly as the opposite sex when it adopts to work and other things. This is enormous in the rise of popularity of cleaning ladys football and fe manlike boxing. During the 1800, women were pass judgment to be undefiled in those days a perfect lady would be expected to deplete a pale face, do absolutely no exertion and have actua lly delicate constitution, they where expected to be good hostesses and certainly know their place in society. Women never even received the resembling level of education as men. ome women nerver even got eduction. They were considered as being alike stupid for higher education. However not all women where satisfied with their moorage in life.They believed that they were stuck in a vicious circle, which if not impossible, would be truly difficult to break out of. The earlier years of the 20th centruary in Britian saw a concerted campaign for the right to votingr turnout for women. the womens complaisant and political union, otherwise known as the ballotttes, was reared in 1903 by the Pankhurst family. he campaign for the right to vote for women between 1905 and 1914 became increasingly militant as women were prepared to take direct accomplishment, such as distruption of meetings, chaining themselves to tracks outside 10 downing highway, smashing windows and rioting. at 1 stage the prime minister,s bucolic house was fire bombed. as a result of this many suffragettes found themselves inside holloway prison where they resorted to hungry strikes. the prison aouthorities responded with forcible feeding.There is no simple answer why the suffrage movement failed between 1900 and 1914, instead, a series of long and short term causes. The main point of this shew is to analyze, as well as discuss these reasons in detail. If possible I will put them in order of importance. women where treated very raspingly in the 1900 as they were objects in front on mens look. when a woman got married all her belongings wer transfered to her husband and they were now the property of the husband. in other words married women were legally dead in the eyes of the law. omen had no property rights, all thier property was thier husbands. all women were robbed score thier self-confidence and self-respect and this do them totalyy dependent on men.No woman could get eduction s ince no college or university would accept women students but on that point were 1 or 2 exceptions. the women regarded the vote becouse they treasured to be equaly nown in public as men. wanted at that place rights. wanted thier belongings. wanted to be rembered for somethin. wanted to have the right to vote and have a adage in the uncouth. anted nation to hear what they have to say about how the country is run. The Suffragists were called the shrieking sisterhood, branded as unfeminine, and accused of immorality and drunkenness. many an(prenominal) citizens and a great deal of newspapers where strongly against The National Union Of Womens Suffrage Societies. Suffragist leadership were often subjected to physical abuse. Suffragist meetings were repeatedly stormed and disrupted by street gangs. On many occasions the speaker at a suffragist meeting would aim a revolver to discourage possible attacks from the audience.However, it was not only men that were against the suffrag ist movement, many, if not most upper-class women were against the movement, including Queen Victoria. There were many reasons why anti-suffragists felt this way. The anti-suffragists partly based their assumptions on the difference between the male and egg-producing(prenominal) physical abilities they did not discuss the biological difference because they did not believe it was appropriate for public discussion. Instead, emphasis was put on the fragility of the women claiming that this is what made her unsuited for the vote.The physical weakness of the female would be potentially dangerous. They argues that assuming she reached the polling place, she index get caught up in a brawl and given the womens inherent fragility, she would be the one to get hurt. Beyond these reasons existed the belief that allowing women to vote would gamble the nations security and lead, ultimately, to war. One leader of the anti-suffragists said Allowing women to vote would lead to unconnected aggre ssion and war. The second areas of difference between men and women which the antis argued, was the issue of morality.A anti who spoke at a hearing in computerized tomography on womens suffrage observed that The most convincing reason I have heard was the one offered by Miss Pearson. We want the ballot, and we want it when we want it. This shows the depth of intelligence. The anti-suffragists also predicted that if women were given the vote disastrous results would occur. The antis believed that political involvement would put them in situations were the male vulnerability would be exploited. However, preceding(prenominal) all the anti-suffragists were afraid about the emotional state of women.Men where exposit as rational and emotionally stable, women were portrayed as high strung, tense, pestering and irrational. One anti said that when women generally vote and hold office, the go for for publicity and love of the limelight will combine to produce a form of hysteria. Some took this idea further and argued that since all women suffragists bordered on hysteria there was no need to take their arguments seriously. They said that when women vote, she would let her feelings rather because her intellectual concern be the main reasons for their voteSome more(prenominal) eccentric people said that allowing women to have the vote would breed a nation of transvestites and that women could hide extra voting slips in their voluminous sleeves The position of certain key political parties was also a huge contributor to why women never got the vote between 1900 and 1914. For if women wanted the vote, ultimately if would have been the MPs that they would have had to convince. Many backbench heavy(a) MPs were supporters of votes for women, but the Liberal leaders were opposed to it.This was because they feared that, if only better-off, property owning women got the vote, these women would vote for their arch rival, the buttoned-down party. On the other hand, some conservative leaders, liking the prospect of more conservative voters, were quite keen on womens suffrage. But they took no follow up because their backbench MPs were completely opposed, on principle, to change the role of women. In addition, both parties had forged worries then female suffrage. Neither party was prepared to adopt female suffrage as party policy, so it never got priority in parliament.In 1903, many suffragists where angry at the lack of success that had come their way, as a result, a lady called Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst founded a new organization, which was called the Womens brotherly and Political Union or WSPU in short. The Daily Mail called then the suffragettes and with them making so many headlines this name became hard to shake off. The suffragettes had the equivalent goal and ambitions as the suffragists, in time, they believed that the only way to reach their goal was to frame more essential and militant. The suffragettes disrupted political meeting and repeatedly vexed ministers.Asquith, who at that time was a Liberal Prime Minister, came under particularly heavy abuse due to his views on women suffrage. they physically assulted politicans, destroyed paintings in the national gallery and in 1913 emily davison threw herself under the kings horse and was killed. there red tactics may have lots support for the camaign. After a womens suffrage bill ran out of time in 1908, direct action from the suffragettes began. The suffragettes began making speeches at 10 Downing street, they even chained themselves to railing to stop being moved on, in doing so getting themselves arrested.In that same year stones where thrown thought the windows of 10 Downing street There was however logic behind the violence. The suffragettes believed that the government ignored the calls for women suffrage because there where more important issues. The Suffragettes believed that by becoming more ascendent and carmine the government where forced to liste n whether they liked it or not, they believed that processions and petitions, however large, were easily ignored. the goverment di not want to be seen to give in to the violent demandss as this would mak them look weak.There where mixed reactions to the Direct Action that the Suffragettes employed. Some people where worried, some sympathetic and some were scornful. It was the reaction from the Suffragists that surprised people the most. Many suffragists admired the readiness of suffragettes to go to jail for the cause. When the first suffragette was imprisoned, Mrs. Fawcett put on a banquet for them when they where released. This did not last, for as the Suffragettes got more violent and radical the further apart the two groups got, relationships between then become very strained.The suffragists believed that you cant win the right for a democratic vote by using undemocratic methods, they also believed that the violence would put of the MPs that would have okay their cause. There i s no doubt that the increase in violence modify the support for womans suffrage. By 1913 many suffragettes where imprisoned. The violence did however achieve one of its goals, it certainly raised the profile of the issue and it could not longer be ignored. But in doing so they damaged the bigger picture, for know there was a reason for their opponents for rejecting womans suffrage.If the MPs gave in to the violence from the suffragettes what hope will they have when dockers or mine workers riot for higher wages? From 1911 onwards, whenever the issue of womans suffrage was debated in parliament, there was a bigger majority against womens suffrage. In 1914 Britain declared war in Germany, from August to September many different womens organizations were set up, including the Womens Hospital Corp and the Womens Police Volunteers. This meant that all suffragist and suffragette campaigns had to be halted.I venture that the most important reason for why the women suffrage was unsuccess ful during 1900 and the 1914 was the event that, peoples minds at that time where not prepared for such a big advancement, it is true that the suffragettes reduced their chances significantly, but I believe that even if there was no violence the women would have still not got the vote until subsequently the war becouse that is when they really proved themsleves as they helped out greatly in the first world war.