Hello, my name's Mr. Williams and I'm going to be a history teacher today.

This is the fourth lesson in the unit which explores the changing role of women from the mediaeval period to the 20th century.

My role today is to help you meet the lessons learning objective.

I'm really looking forward to teaching you, so let's get started.

In today's lesson, we're going to assess the impact the campaign for women's suffrage had on the role of women in British society.

There are five keywords that are essential to understanding today's lesson.

They are franchise, suffrage, suffragist, suffragette, and flapper.

The franchise is the ability to vote.

Suffrage is the right to vote.

A suffragist is a person who campaigned for women's right to vote using peaceful methods.

A suffragette is a person who campaigned for women's right to vote using militant, sometimes violent methods.

A flapper was a more independent, fashionable woman who challenged traditional ideas about how women were expected to behave in the 1920s.

Today's lesson will be split into three parts, and in this first part we are going to be exploring the role of women by 1900.

In 1900, the majority of people in Britain still considered a woman's role to be the angel in the home.

Although working class women had to combine housework and childcare with paid work.

The vast majority of middle class women gave up paid work when they married.

Working women continued to be paid much less than men and they mostly worked in jobs with the longest hours and lowest pay.

For example, domestic service.

Although some educated women still benefited from new opportunities in teaching and nursing, women remained excluded from the majority of professions.

Women continued to have fewer illegal rights than men and married women had even fewer.

In the second half of the 19th century, legislation had been passed to give women more rights within marriage.

For example, in 1884, married women were finally recognised as individuals by the law instead of being regarded as the property of their husbands.

Although this represented progress, it remained much easier for men to divorce their wives than the other way around, and women were still very much the inferior partner in the vast majority of marriages.

For many women, the biggest injustice was that women could not vote or become members of Parliament, MPs.

By 1900, an increasing number of women believed that achieving further improvements in the position and status of women would only be possible if women were able to have the franchise.

Let's take a moment now to check your understanding.

The statements on the screen are all incorrect.

I want you to identify the one mistake in each sentence and correct it.

Pause the video now and press play when you're ready to see the correct answers.

You were asked to identify and correct the one mistake in each of the three sentences.

Your answers may have included, number one, by 1900, most women were still expected to stay at home and focus on housework and looking after children.

Number two, women who worked were usually paid less than men, and number three, men had more legal rights than women.

Well done if you managed to correct those sentences.

Let's have a go at another task.

I want you to complete the sentence on the screen using the correct keyword.

Pause the video now and press play when you're ready to see the correct answer.

Okay.

The missing keyword was franchise.

Well done to everyone who identified that and the complete sentence should read, the ability to vote is known as the franchise.

Before we attempt our first practise task, let's do one final check for understanding for this first section of our lesson.

There is a statement on the screen that says, by 1900 women had the franchise but they could not become MPs.

Is this statement true or false? Pause the video now and press play when you're ready to see the correct answer.

Okay, well done to everybody who said that statement was false.

Now let's try and justify our answer.

There are two justifications on the screen.

The first says women could not vote or become MPs, and the second says women could become MPs but they could not vote.

Which of these justifications shows that our original statement was false? Pause the video now and press play when you're ready to see the correct answer.

Okay, well done to everyone that said A was the correct justification.

In 1900 women did not have the franchise, which meant that they could not vote for MPs, but they were also not allowed to become MPs.

We are now ready to apply our knowledge and understanding from this first section of our lesson.

There are two sentences on the screen.

The first one says, by 1900, there had been some improvements in the lives of women.

For example, the second one says, despite this, Britain remained a very patriarchal society.

For example.

I want you to complete these sentences.

In your answer, you could use the following keywords, legislation and franchise.

Pause the video now and press play when you're ready to compare what you've written with an example answer.

Okay, well done for all your hard work on that task.

You were asked to complete two sentences and it was suggested that you could use the words franchise and legislation in your answer.

You may have written something like this.

By 1900, there had been some improvements in the lives of women.

For example, legislation had been passed that meant women were no longer considered to be the property of their husbands.

Despite this, Britain remained a very patriarchal society.

For example, women did not have the franchise and they were not permitted to become MPs.

We are now ready to move on to the next part of our lesson.

In this next part of our lesson, we're going to explore how women campaigned for and won the right to vote.

The campaign to win the franchise for women was also known as the Campaign for Women suffrage.

In 1897, Millicent Fawcett founded the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies or the NUWSS.

The NUWSS was the first national organisation to campaign for women's right to vote and its members were nicknamed Suffragists.

The suffragists relied on peaceful tactics to win support for women's suffrage such as organising public meetings and marches and working to enlist the support of male MPs.

Some women became frustrated at the slow progress of the suffragists.

In 1903, Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union or the WSBU.

The members of the WSBU were nicknamed the Suffragettes and their motto was, deeds not words.

Led by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters, the suffragettes used militant tactics to put pressure on the government to give women the right to vote.

For example, vandalising buildings and harassing male MPs.

The tactics of the suffragettes were controversial.

On one hand, they gained significant publicity, but on the other hand, as they became increasingly violent, some historians argue that they lost support for their cause.

Let's take a moment now to check your understanding.

Complete the table on the screen with the missing information about the two main groups, that campaign for women's suffrage, the suffragists and the suffragettes.

Pause the video now and press play when you're ready to compare your completed table with a model answer.

Well done if your completed table looks like the one on the screen, let's check to make sure you've added all the missing information.

In the first row, the name of the main organisation of the suffragettes was the Women's Social and Political Union or the WSBU.

In the second row, the name of the founder of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies or the NUWSS was Millicent Faucet.

In the third row, the date that the WSBU is founded was 1903 and in the fourth row the tactics of the suffragettes were militant and sometimes violent.

And finally in the last row, examples of tactics used by the suffragists included marches or writing to MPs.

Very well done if you completed the table successfully.

Let's move on.

In 1914, the first World war began and the suffragists and the suffragettes agreed to suspend their campaigning to support the war effort.

Women worked in industry, for example, making weapons and ammunition in farming as part of the Women's Land army and in a range of other jobs that were normally done by men.

By 1918 when the war ended, approximately 1.

6 million women were involved in war work.

The work done by women during the war helped to challenge stereotypes about what women were capable of and some historians argue when more support for female suffrage than the campaigns of either the suffragists or the suffragettes.

In 1918, the representation of the People Act gave the right to vote to all men over 21 and all women over the age of 30 as long as they were householders or owned property.

Let's check your understanding.

There is a statement on the screen that says, after the First World War, there was more support for women's suffrage.

Is this true or false? Pause the video now and press play when you're ready to see the correct answer.

Okay, well done to everyone who said the correct answer is true, so now we need to justify our answer.

Two justifications have appeared on the screen.

The first one says, an increase in campaigning for women's suffrage during the war led to more support and the second one says, the work women did to help the war effort challenge stereotypes about women and led to more support.

Which of these justifications shows that our original statement was true? Pause the video now and press play when you're ready to see the correct answer.

Okay, well done to everyone who said that B was the correct justification.

Justification A, can't have been the right choice because both the suffragists and the suffragettes stopped campaigning during the first World War.

Some historians argue that the contribution women made to the war effort was the main reason that women won the franchise in 1918.

Let's check your understanding about the representation of the People Act of 1918.

There's a question on the screen which says, who is given the franchise as part of the representation of the People Act 1918? Was it A, B, C, or D? Which answer is correct? Pause the video now and press play when you're ready to see the correct answer.

Okay, well done if you said the correct answer is D.

From 1918, male householders and property owners could vote when they were aged 18 or over.

However, women had to wait until they were 30.

This inequality was only addressed in 1928 with the passing of the Equal Franchise Act.

We are now ready to apply our knowledge and understanding in our second practise task.

Jun and Izzy have different views about why women won the right to vote in 1918.

Jun argues that women only won the right to vote because the suffragettes militant tactics put pressure on the government.

Izzy has argued the work women completed during the First World War was the most important reason why women won the right to vote.

I want you to identify who you agree with the most and then write a short paragraph to explain your choice.

Pause the video now and press play when you're ready to compare your answer with a model answer.

Okay, well done for all your hard work on that task, your answer may have included.

I agree with Izzy because 1.

6 million women carried out war work during the First World War and this challenge stereotypes about women and led to more support for female suffrage.

Although the tactics of the suffragettes did put pressure on the government, violent tactics also lost support for their cause.

Let's move on now to the final part of our lesson.

In the final part of our lesson, we're going to consider the extent to which winning the right to vote affected the role of women in society during the 1920s and 1930s.

Winning the right to vote did not immediately improve the position and status of women in society and throughout the 1920s and 1930s, women continued to face familiar challenges.

When the First World War ended, women who had been encouraged to take on war work and do their bit were expected to return to looking after their home and raising children.

Most women did not want to leave the jobs they had done during the war which were better paid and gave them more freedom and status.

However, by the 1930s, most women were doing much the same as they had been before 1914 and women who did have jobs were usually paid significantly less than men doing the same work.

Women voted for the first time in the December, 1918 elections and Nancy Astor became the first female MP to take her seat in Parliament in December, 1919.

Despite the significant step forward, over 12 million women continue to have no say over who represented them in parliament.

Due to the requirement to own property, the majority of women who could not vote were young, working class women.

These were exactly the same women who had contributed most of the war effort.

In 1928, the representation of the people or Equal Franchise Act gave all men and women over the age of 21 the right to vote.

For the first time, women made up the majority of the people who could vote.

However, by 1931, there were still only 15 female MPs.

Let's take a moment to check your understanding.

On the screen, we have another set of statements that are all incorrect.

I want you to identify the one mistake in each sentence and correct it.

Pause the video now and press play when you're ready to reflect on what you've done.

You are asked to identify and correct the one mistake in each of the three sentences.

Your answers may have included.

Number one, after the first World War, most women stopped doing the work they had done in the war.

Number two.

By the 1930s, most women were doing work that was the same as the work they had done before the war.

And number three, women were paid less than men if they did the same work.

Very well done if you managed to correct those sentences.

Let's do another check of your understanding.

On the screen there's a question.

It says, in December 1919, who became the first female MP in Britain to take her seat in parliament? Was it A, Emmeline Pankhurst, B, Millicent Faucet or C Nancy Astor.

Pause the video and press play when you're ready to see the correct answer.

Okay, well done to all of you that said the correct answer was C, Nancy Astor.

Let's do another quick check of your understanding so far.

There's a statement on the screen that says the representation of the people Act 1928 gave men and women equal voting rights.

Is this true or false? Pause the video now and press play when you're ready to see the correct answer.

Okay, well done to everyone who said the correct answer was true, but as always we need to justify our answers.

So two justifications have appeared on the screen.

The first says, all men and women over the age of 18 were given the franchise and the second says, all men and women over the age of 21 were given the franchise.

Which of these justifications shows us that our original statement was true? Is it A or B? Pause the video now and press play when you're ready to find out the correct answer.

Okay, well done to everyone who said that B was the correct justification.

The representation of the people Act 1928 gave men and women equal voting rights and set the voting age at 21.

The current voting age in the UK is 18 or over, but it was not reduced from 21 until 1969.

Let's move on.

During the 1920s and 1930s, some women, known as flappers began to challenge traditional ideas of how women were expected to behave.

Flappers were normally younger women from urban areas because they had greater access to education, more money, and they were more likely to be exposed to modern trends.

Flappers began to wear more revealing clothing, bobbed haircuts, and bolder makeup.

They would go out dancing without chaperones, people to supervise them and they would take part in activities that were only considered suitable for men such as smoking and drinking.

Although the number of flappers was relatively small, the way they challenged society's expectations helped to pave the way for women to achieve greater freedom in the future.

Let's take a moment now to check your understanding.

Which of the statements on the screen best describes flappers? Is it A, younger women from rural areas? B, older women from urban areas? C, younger women from urban areas? Or D, older women from rural areas? Pause the video now and press play when you're ready to see the correct answer.

Okay, well done to everyone who said the correct answer was C.

Flappers were normally younger women in urban areas 'cause they had greater access to education, they had more money and they were more likely to be exposed to modern trends.

It's time to apply our knowledge and understanding by completing a final practise task.

Lucas has come to a judgement about the impact of winning the franchise on the role of women during the 1920s and 1930s.

Lucas claims, "Despite winning the franchise, there was little change in the role of women in British society during the 1920s and 1930s." To what extent do you agree with Lucas? I'd like you to answer the question in a balanced way.

You might find it useful to use these sentence starters.

On one hand, winning the franchise did not significantly change the role of women in British society.

On the other hand.

Pause the video now and press play when you're ready to reflect on your response and compare it with a model answer.

Okay, great effort on that final task, well done.

You were asked to consider whether you agreed with Lucas's judgement about the impact of winning the franchise on the role of women during the 1920s and 1930s.

You were asked to write a balanced answer and you may have written something like this.

On one hand, winning the franchise did not significantly change the role of women in British society.

This is because men still dominated parliament and by 1931 there were still only 15 female MPs.

Furthermore, despite the contribution they'd made to the war efforts, the majority of women were expected to give up the jobs they'd been doing and focus on housework and childcare again as soon as the first World War ended.

On the other hand, the role of women did change during the 1920s and 1930s.

Women winning the franchise in 1918 led to the election of female MPs and although it took until 1928, women had equal voting rights to men.

In addition, from the 1920s onwards, women known as flappers began to challenge traditional expectations of how women should behave, which paved the way for greater social freedom for women in the future.

We're at the end of our lesson now, so it's a good opportunity to reflect on what we've learned.

By 1900, many women believe further improvements to their lives could only be achieved if they had the franchise.

In their campaigns for female suffrage, the suffragists used peaceful tactics, whereas the suffragettes used militant, sometimes violent tactics.

The contribution women made to the war effort during the First World War was an important factor in helping women to win the franchise in 1918.

Despite winning the franchise, many women continued to play the same roles in society as they had done before 1918.

Finally, during the 1920s, younger women from urban areas known as flappers, began to challenge traditional expectations about how women should behave.

It is been a real pleasure teaching you today.

I hope you've enjoyed the lesson and I look forward to teaching you again in the future.