Explain the role of women during french revolution.
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Women were active participants in the French Revolution. Women in France were not empowered.
Most of the women of the third estate had to work to earn their livelihood. They worked as seamstresses, sold flowers and vegetables or worked as domestic servants in the houses of wealthy families.
Women started their own clubs in order to raise their own voices. A famous women’s club was the Society of Revolutionary Republican Women. This club demanded that women be given the same political rights as men. Women till now had no right to vote.
In the beginning, many laws were implemented to improve the condition of women in French society. Schooling was made compulsory for all girls. Fathers could no longer marry off their daughters without obtaining their consent. Divorce was made legal, and women began to be trained for various jobs.
Olympe de Gouges was politically active in revolutionary France. She protested against the Constitution and the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen because they did not even give basic political rights to women
During the Reign of Terror, many laws were issued which ordered the closing of women’s clubs. Many women were tried and guillotined.
Women’s struggle to demand equal voting rights however continued. The French women were finally granted voting rights in 1946.