Why did the campaign for women suffrage develop in the years after 1870?

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Why did the campaign for women suffrage develop in the years after 1870?

I think that the campaign for women suffrage developed in the years after 1870 because the liberals committed to an increase of franchise but the rule did not include women getting the vote in the 1867 Reform Act, which gave many working class men the vote but nothing to the women which really angered them.

    The main reasons for women suffrage movement was the work places for women because the only place they could work was at textile factories, or just look after children and do the house work and leave the hard work to men which women really didn’t want because they wanted to go out there and vote and do all the jobs they wanted to do like being doctors, builders etc. This was the main reason because the inequality of the workplace, which just saw men taking all the jobs at work. In 1867 the Factory Act was set up and they had restricted hours at work and it also depended on the jobs they were in also.

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   There were many women such as Caroline Norton who had a bad marriage and their husbands accused them off things which they have done or haven’t done and took them to court, and if it wasn’t true or if it was true they could get away with their children, the women’s possession and money. When women wanted a divorce they would have to go to the House of Lords and pay also to get the divorce, which was a slow and expensive process.

   Caroline Norton led a campaign to get herself and others justice. It all came ...

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