War work was a result of the reward for the vote for women. As it wasn’t for them Britain could not have survived, as the blockade from germany stop imports to Britain, women started to farm, sending food and supplies to front. Women had learnt other skills – learning to eat efficiently, healthier, to cook, some learnt who to work as many had that luxury to be pampered. With many women they became nurses helping in hospitles in Britain main land and also some went to the front as there weren’t many doctors to go around, to help all those injured. This did show that women had the devotion to serve and help her man and country. Many historians to describe the war were the delay for the vote.
If the war had been the reason for the delayed for women’s right to vote, then women’s war work was not a reward, but a sacrifices for women; to bare more long hard, struggle to work, to prove themselves worthy of the vote and to show what men can do, women can also do. For what good the women’s war effort did, it was just another demonstration for women’s rights of independents and right to vote. As women just want the right to what they earn and pay taxes to their government. However the war did play a part for changing the views of men’s perspective of women’s vote.
Before war men’s view were changing towards to the vote for women. This happened for many reasons; war as explained changed views as men saw what some women where to sacrifice. Also before war women had started to begin to force some men to change their view on women’s suffrage. Like for the in November 18th, 1910 “Black Friday”; 300 women sot out to parliament to protest against Asquith neglect to women’s suffrage – this was seen by men very unladylike, and the gates of parliament policemen stood in their way for six hours these women pushed and struggles past the police officers, as they threatened brutally and physically assaulted, thrown from policemen in uniform to policemen in plain cloths, this was done until the woman had fainted. Other incidents; women putting buildings on fire, spitting at police officers, and assaulting mps caused women to go to prison – then leading on to hunger strike. Women didn’t succeed by starving themselves as the government ordered to force feeding the women. But as people heard about this, the government enter the “cat and mouse act” this allowed women to be release to get fitter then to be imprisoned again, this went on and on until finally when the press got board women didn’t get much publicity. Not all violence was recorded to be the most significant of changing attitudes. Suffragist, women that wanted the voted but to be peaceful; they compromised with party officials especially the liberals to bring in reforms and acts like the “cat and mouse act”, with out these women many would have died in prison or have a long time of pain with force feeding. The suffragist still petitioned, marched and protested to the liberals to bring in the vote for women. With out any of the mentioned incidents, many of men might not have been so sympathetic to women’s rights; even the war effort might have just changed their minds. There still debate over the groups involved in the women’s suffrage to what roles they played.
There now have been recent developments in the view of the suffragist as more and more feminist historians investigate there ancestors roles in history have now became more clear, because before when people talked about the women’s suffrage may talked about the events of the suffragettes the violent type of women. In the last paragraph talking about the decisions of women changing men’s minds, both women’s suffrages are spoken about. The suffragists were the peaceful women that acted to get the vote in all ways possible within the law, humanitarian reasons and also in the least barbaric way. These are new added views to what now we speak of the suffrage movement. Then we have the suffragettes which was the complete opposite of the suffragist. Getting the vote was the most important objective to get in any means possible without taking another life as both did argue not to talk a life for what reason. Except for one of the women took her for the cause, by killing herself by walking in front of the kings horse (George V).
Concluding to the end of the piece, we agree that it just wasn’t the involvement of the women’s war work the government gave the women the vote, but other events, even those that were the most extreme of death to the smallest occasion took tale in the building bricks for a better evolved society of men and women having equal right as each other and one and other.