Question 3
The reason why the women had not gained the vote by WW1 was simply because Parliament didn't allow it. In the years before 1900, 15 bills for women's suffrage had been put forward to Parliament by a group of women known as the suffragists. Each time, the bill failed. The lack of success annoyed many suffragists and by 1903, Ms Emmeline Pankhurst created another organisation of women known as the suffragettes. One of the biggest reasons was people's views on equality of the sexes. The public, MPs and even the other women felt that men were superior to women. Men of that era believed that women were irrational, second class and unsuitable. Source E, part of a speech made by a member of parliament in 1913 agreed with this idea by stateing 'in giving women the right to vote will ultimately put the control of the government of this country into female hands' this means that if they was to let women vote who knows what they would do, and could potentcialy break the government and country.
