Suffragettes

Task 18. What do you know about the following things:

Women’s Social and Political Union, Daily Mail, Oxford street?

Task 19. Who are the following people:

Emily Pankhurst, Nancy Asher, Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair?

Task 20. Answer the following questions:

1. Describe the position of the women in the beginning of 20^th c.

2. How did the suffragettes* try to get the vote?

3. What was the authorities’ response to the suffragettes activities?

4. What was the British women’s contribution to the War effort in 1914-1918 and how did it help them to get the vote?

5. When did the women in the UK got the same voting rights as the men?