Reasons for Developing a Campaign for Women's Suffrage After 1870

Reasons for Developing a Campaign for Women's Suffrage After 1870

In this essay I’m going to explain why the campaign for women’s

suffrage developed in the years after 1870. The reasons why a campaign

for women’s suffrage developed in the years after 1870 can be

summarized into two main reasons. One was because they wanted equal

status with men and the other was to change their lives and to gain

the right to vote as well as freedom. The women’s suffrage was a

worldwide issue that had began a long time before the 19th century. It

was going on in Canada, Mexico, Great Britain, United States, New

Zealand, Australia and Italy. The women’s suffrage movement was not

only striving for equal rights of women but also for voting

privileges. For the purpose of the work I shall concentrate on events

only in Britain.

There are many reasons why the campaign for women’s suffrage developed

in the years after 1870; one reason is that social attitudes began to

change after 1870, for example; the idea of marriage as companionship

began to hinder absolute male domination before 1870. Women were

regarded by society as relatively weak, passive and dependant

individuals who are less rational and more emotional than men. Women

wanted to change the attitude that their intellectual capacity was

lower than that of men. They also wanted to change the attitude that

they did not have the same capacity for government as men, and whether

they are possessed of the qualifications for ruling or government.

Women were tired of inferiority status. They were tired of the

subordination that they were subjected to. After 1870 however,

attitudes towards women in society were changing slowly which

increased the number of people supporting the campaign for women’s

suffrage.

Another reason why the campaign for women’s suffrage developed in the