SUFFRAGETTES LESSON 3- PROPAGANDA POSTERS

PROPAGANDA POSTERS

Without TV, radio or social media, the suffragettes use propaganda posters to help

change people’s minds about women getting the vote.

PROPAGANDA- information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote

a political cause or point of view:

THERE WERE EVEN ANTI-SUFFRAGETTE POSTERS!

WORLD WAR I

In 1914, as the First World War began, Emmeline Pankhurst stopped the activities of the Women's Social and Political Union to concentrate her efforts on helping the government recruit women into war work. Many other suffrage organisations did the same and suspended campaigning to help with the war effort.

Life for women changed a lot

because men were away at

war. Many women took paid

jobs outside the home for the

first time. By 1918 there were

five million women working

in Britain. The money they

earned helped the family's

budget and they made new

friends in the factory, office

or shop.

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The involvement of women in the war effort helped to

change perceptions of women and their role in British

society.

During the war, women carried out jobs normally

undertaken by men and proved they could do the

work just as well.

Between 1914 and 1918, an estimated two million

women replaced men in employment.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zqhyb9q/articles/zj8my9q

Women proved that they were capable of jobs

beyond those in traditionally 'female' roles, such as

domestic work. However, employers still deemed

that women's work was worth less than men's and

their wage packets did not match men's even for

the same jobs.

Shop workers were paid around half as much.

Teachers earned less than 80 per cent of a man's

salary.

However, this time helped to strengthen

the arguments for women’s right to vote.

IN 1918 MANY WOMEN OVER THE AGE OF 30 WERE GIVEN THE RIGHT TO VOTE.

STILL NOT EQUAL TO MEN WHO COULD VOTE AT 21.....BUT IT WAS A START!

TASK

Create your own propaganda poster, campaigning

for women to get the vote. Consider using women’s

role in the war effort to help you. As with other

posters we have seen, try to use humour, clear

images and snappy slogans. You are trying to

persuade people and make people change their

minds!

You are trying to show people that women are

strong, intelligent and equal to men and deserve to

have a say!