Women"s suffrage is the right of women to vote. The women"s suffrage movement was the struggle to gain the same right to vote as men. With a few exceptions, women today have the same voting rights as men. However, this was not always the case. Women were only given the right to vote in 1918 after the government had been refusing in it for over 20 years. In 1918, after the end of the First World War women were given the right to vote, however we could ask why the government changed its mind after refusing for 21 years?...
since 1897 by forming organisations and making banners, leaflets ect. Other organisations tried to campaign violently by throwing bombs and strikes, although the government still refused. Women wanted to have equal rights because they paid taxes, voted in local elections and some women The government and most men however, believed the majority of women were too ignorant of politics to be able to use their vote properly and women did not fight in wars so they shouldn't be allowed to decide if the country goes into wars. The government refused to give women the right to vote until 1918.