The changing roleand status of women in Britain since 1900.

   There have been a few obvious facts left out in source D that should have been included such as the reason why women maybe taking such methods to win the vote, this effect may have changed people’s views and opinions if they knew the reason why, they acted militantly. Also certain facts have been left out or put in deliberately to change or influence the reader’s thoughts. So in source D the fact that women wanted the vote is left out probably on purpose to show a negative image of the protesting women.

   In source D the writer uses certain words and phrases such as ‘disgust of men,’ ‘desperate women,’ ‘shameful recklessness,’ and ‘forgetting their female dignity’ these show clearly that the writer is against the women having the right to vote and wants other people to think and believe the same. So the journalist disapproves of the actions the women are taking he is biased. Presumably the readers agreed with the views made by the Daily Sketch newspaper. Whereas source E shows a persuasive, civilised and sensible argument that shows the advantage of women having the vote so this sources producer agrees with the situation of women wanting the right to vote.

   At this time in 1908 the Parliament did not see this theory of women being granted the vote as an important priority so not many MP’s were really interested in what was taking place because a bill was made by the women but did not get past a second reading which was really disappointing for the women this showed that the Parliament did not really care about women wanting the vote so the two sources do have a reflect on the Parliament by source D trying to how the public and Parliament that they are that desperate to have the right to vote that they are destroying Government property and action should be taken about it whereas source E is trying to show Parliament that men and women are equal and they will get more work out of the women than men and that they are both equal because you will get drunk men but never see a drunk women so the women are more reliable than men which could be a clever tactic to use of the Parliament because employment was big in the time of 1908 so this may have worked on the Parliament and they have given it a second though about what the women want.

   I think that source E is more accurate and reliable because there are no factual errors, no obvious facts have been left out and the argument is not extremely biased it is fairly balanced. Although source D foes gave errors you still cannot judge it from that but it also has left out the reasoning which is important in this case and the writers opinion is very biased so overall source E has less errors when compared to source D.