The Role Of Emmeline Pankhurst's Suffrage In Britain

Britain in the nineteenth century was a country which experienced great inequality. There was a high rate of inequality between men and women and as such they were expected to fill distinctively separate spheres of the British society, with men engaging in the public aspects of life such as politics while women were expected to focus on the the private sector (the home), and despite the subjective position women were placed in during the time period the attitude of women in the British society began to change overtime as women acceptance and adherence to the traditional role of women began to dissipate and this gave room for the emergence of British suffragette movement whose aim was to open up the political sector(public sector) to women.

The W.S.P.U was established to emphasize democracy and also to define the issue regarding women’s franchise as a political issue, although it used militant tactics to achieve its aim, the W.S.P.U was also not to be hindered by complex rules as it was a voluntary women’s suffrage movement with the single goal of achieving women franchise. Pankhurst and W.S.P.U discarded the traditional notion of women and adopted a more aggressive means of achieving their goal; instead of using a more tolerant means such as petitioning the British parliament, they disrupted the British society by using militant tactics to further their cause. The ideas behind the militancy tactics of the women suffrage movement was to disrupt the public and private sector of British society because they believed that the British government cared for the security of property and human lives, and at such it was necessary for them to disrupt the Britain society to gain public attention for their cause, the W.S.P.U urged women of this era to be militant in their own ways in their own ways in other to encourage the participation and

For much of nineteenth century, the separates spheres (public and private) were played a dominant factor in the relation between sexes; the male constituted that of the public sphere, while the female constituted to the domestic or private sphere. Research has also shown that over time that the major contributions to establishing equality amongst the sexes was the suffragette’s movement, the result was the suffragette challenged the various ways in which the public sphere, this lead to a lot of political changes and also paved the way for future equality amongst the sexes. The use of militant tactics (hunger strike) can be considered as a way in which the suffragette achieved their