Suffragettes

Do you know when women got the right to vote in Switzerland? You might find the answer quite surprising.
Click on the image above to watch a video and answer the questions below. This vocabulary might help you:

To be allowed to do something	To have permission to do something
Child rearing	The process of bringing up children
right	Legal permission
struggle	fight
rally	a mass meeting of people making a political protest
bill	a draft of a proposed law presented to parliament for discussion.
role	the function assumed by a person
To found	To start, to set up
female	characteristic of women
Stepping stone	an action that helps one to make progress towards a specified objective/goal
power	the ability or capacity to do something
Measure	a plan or course of action taken to achieve a particular purpose.
Hunger strike	a prolonged refusal to eat, carried out as a protest by a prisoner.
Injury	Harm, as in an accident.
mud	soft, sticky matter resulting from the mixing of earth and water.
peaceful	Non-violent

1. Why was it assumed that women didn’t need to vote?
2. What was a woman’s role at the time?
3. What did the suffrage movement fight for?
4. When did women get the right to vote?
5. At what age could women vote?
6. When did the movement start?
7. In which decade of the 19th century were several organizations founded?
8. Who is usually considered as the main heroine of the votes for women campaign?
9. When did Emmeline Pankhurst protest outside Parliament?
10. What radical measure did the suffragettes take in 1909?
11. Whose horse did Emily Davison step in front of?
12. Did she survive?
13. How many suffragettes took part in a London demonstration in 1907?
14. Why was this called the Mud March?
15. Who believed in peaceful methods, the suffragists or the suffragettes?
16. When did women eventually get electoral equality with men?

*Find the answers at the bottom of this entry.

Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom was a movement to fight for women's right to vote. It finally succeeded through two laws in 1918 and 1928. It became a national movement in the Victorian Era.

Browse the Internet to find the answer to the questions below. Write down the answers in your notebooks.

1. Were all suffragettes upper class?
2. Why is the suffragette Emily Wilding-Davison well known?
3. What was Emily Wilding-Davison's most famous exploit - the one that killed her?
4. What were the names of Emmeline Pankhurst's daughters that helped her set up the suffragettes?
5. Who was the first woman to go on hunger strike?
6. When all suffragette prisoners started to go on hunger strike, what did the authorities do to begin with?
7. Who formed the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies?
8. When was the Women's Suffrage and Political Union formed?
9. When did women get the parliamentary vote in the UK?
10. What was the difference between suffragettes and suffragists?

Emmeline Pankhurst was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement who helped women win the right to vote.

Click on her picture to find out more about her.

*Answers to the listening questions:

1.       Because it was believed their husbands would take responsibility in political matters.

2.       Child rearing and taking care of the home.

3.       They fought for the right to vote.

4.       In 1918.

5.       Women over 30 could vote.

6.       In 1866.

7.       In the 1860s.

8.       Emmeline Pankhurst.

9.       In 1904.

10.   They went on a hunger strike.

11.   It was King George’s horse.

12.   No, she didn’t. She died from complications from these injuries.

13.   3000.

14.   Because it was a rainy day.

15.   The suffragists.

16.   In 1928.