explain the role played by women in France during the revolutionary years
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(a) Women started their own political clubs and newspapers.
(b) They demanded the right to vote.
(c) They demanded to be elected to the Assembly and to hold political office.
(d) The revolutionary Government introduced some laws for women.
(e) During the 'Reign of Terror', new Government ordered to close women's clubs and ban political activities.
(f) Women's movement for voting right continued through next two hundred years.
(i) Women's struggle for equal political rights continued during the 'Reign of Terror'. The government banned their clubs and political activities. Many women got arrested. It was in 1946 that many women got the right to vote.
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From the very beginning women were active participants in the events which brought about so many changes in French society. They hoped that their involvement would pressurize the revolutionary government to introduce measures to improve their lives. Most women of the third estate had to work for a living . They worked as seamstresses or laundresses, sold flowers, fruits and vegetables at the market, or were employed as domestic servants in the houses of prosperous people. Most women did not have access to education or job training. Only daughters of nobles or wealthier members of the third estate could study at a convent, after which their families arranged a marriage for them. Working women had also to care for their families , that is, cook, fetch water, queue up for bread and look after the children. Their eyes were lower than men. In order to discuss and voice their interests women started their own political clubs and newspapers. About sixty women's club came up in different parts of France. The Society of Revolutionary and Republican Women was the most famous of them.
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