RESEARCH

When we started with our research, our original idea was to do something surrounding the industrial revolution, women's suffrage and women's rights. So, I went on and researched these things and these were my notes:

Industrial Revolution

• Economic necessity, growing economy
• need for more money
• women, single or married, and children to work
• families dependent
• mostly domestic service, textile factories, coal mines and piece workshops
• Women majority of factory labour force
• Provided independent wages, mobility and better standard of living, but mostly a life of hardship
• Working conditions unsanitary and dangerous
• Education suffered
• Women had the double burden of factory work followed by home chores and childcare.
• Men had supervisory roles and higher wages

Historians disagree if industrial revolution was beneficial for women.

Women's Suffrage

• National movement that began in 1872
• Outbreak of the WW1 led to halting
• 1918 the Representation of the People Act was passed
• Women over 30 could vote
• Women had the franchise in local government school boards and health authorities from the late 19th century
• Womens rights became increasingly prominent in the 1850's
• women wanted to own property 

Referred to as a sex war between men and women.

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Sources I used and more interesting links!

http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/lesson7.html

http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/burnette.women.workers.britain

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/general-history-of-womens-suffrage-in-britain-8631733.html

http://www.tchevalier.com/fallingangels/bckgrnd/suffrage/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGEMscZE5dY&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s&index=33 (more about USA's suffrage, but I still found it very interesting)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhL5DCizj5c&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=32