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Explain why women failed to gain the right to vote between 1900 and 1914

In the following essay I will be studying women in the twentieth century. I will be analysing their roles in society, how they were valued, and more importantly how they tried, and ultimately failed, to gain the power of suffrage.

It is clear to say that women were treated very differently to men during the nineteenth century. They were not seen as important as the opposite sex and were certainly undervalued. They did not have the right to an education or to have a career; instead a women’s job was to be a dutiful wife to her husband, a mother to his children and a supervisor of his household. When a woman married, all her earnings, property and even herself became her husbands. Also, if the couple separated the mother did not have any rights over her children. The idea that women should stay at home was on the basis that they were irrational and wouldn’t be able to survive in the world that was seen......

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