Module 02: Should Women Vote? The Politics of Suffrage

Evidence 10: "Votes for Working Women" From Suffragette, January 7, 1913

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Introduction

This cartoon responds to criticism that the women's suffrage movement was only concerned with the political rights of middle- and upper-class women.

Questions to Consider

  • Consider the positioning of the figures in the cartoon: why are the children grouped around the woman in the center?

  • What does the caption at the bottom mean?

Document

Woman standing with arms outstretched like a cross. Children sitting beneath the standing woman.

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Caption:
Votes for Working Women.
"Her children shall rise up and call her blessed."

Source:
"Votes for Working Women," Suffragette (7 Jan 1913).

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