Question

Nowhere in the world have governments willingly shared power. All
over Europe and USA, women and the poor have had to fight for
participation in government. Women’s struggle to vote got
strengthened during the First World War. This movement is called the
women’s suffrage movement as the term suffrage usually means right
to vote.
During the War, many men were away fighting, and because of this
women were called upon to do work that was earlier considered men’s
work. Many women began organising and managing different kinds of
work. When people saw this they began to wonder why they had
created so many unfair stereotypes about women and what they were
capable of doing. So women began to be seen as being equally capable
of making decisions.
The suffragettes demanded the right to vote for all women and to get
their demands heard they chained themselves to railings in public
places. Many suffragettes were imprisoned and went on hunger strikes,
and they had to be fed by force. American women got the right to vote
in 1920 while women in the UK got to vote on the same terms as men
some years later, in 1928.
Study the above advertisement and answer the questions that follow:

1. Where and who had to fight for participation in government1?
2. When had women’s struggle got strengthened?
3. Why was this struggle called women’s suffrage movement?

4. Why were women called to work in men’s field during the war?
5. Why were women seen as being equally capable of making
decisions?

6. Who were suffragettes?
7. When did American women got right to vote?
8. When did UK women get voting right equal to men?

Answer 1

Answer:

The movement for voting rights to women came to be known as the suffrage movement. All over Europe and USA, women and the poor have had to fight for participation in the government. Women's struggle to vote got strengthened during the first world war.