Women had been protesting for the right to vote for many years. They believed that they deserved the right to have the vote because 60% of men already had the vote. Women believed that men's views of the 'inferior' women were outdated and they believed that they deserved more in a twentieth century society. Women had previously been denied the vote because of the threat of the forthcoming war. Also troubles in Ireland had also preoccupied …
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…pay and conditions. Some people might say that women would have already got the vote if the war hadn't had happened, this may be true, but the War helped women immensely to gain the vote and also improved the views of many anti-women rights supporters. The war showed that women could do any job and do as well as men in anything they attempted. Only a World War could show this in the finest way.