Alliekit wrote:
It was a shame it took until 1918 for women to be able to vote in parliament and finnally have equal rights to men.
That's not accurate. Women who paid tax gained the right to vote in 1869. The Representation of the People Act of 1918 saw the government, largely influenced by the sacrifices of World War I, extend voting rights to all men aged 21 and over and to women over 30 (subject to similar property limitations that previously applied to men) which effectively tripled the electorate (6 million additional men and 8 million women). The Equal Franchise Act, giving all women over 21 the same voting rights as men, occurred 10 years later in 1928 and increased the electorate by around 5 million.
I'm not sure why you consider it a "shame". The gradual rolling out of rights to men and women in the pursuit of equality mark, in my opinion, one of the finest achievements of Western civilisation. Societies are works in progress. We can no more judge Victorians (or any other of our forebears) by today's standards than they could those who came before them. After all, they're largely responsible for the freedoms and privileges we enjoy today.
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While the victorian era may have been progressive women were still placed in certain 'traditional roles' that made it so that academic work was frowned upon as well as interferring with politics to a degree
All of which has already been pointed out in this thread.
11 Jan 2017, 7:37 am
