What can you learn from Source A about the reasons given by the Suffragettes for demanding votes for women"

(Source A - A Suffragette poster produced in 1912)

The poster is one of the non-violent campaigns the Suffragettes organized during their fight for women's rights to vote. The Suffragette often used violent campaigns as an attempt to shock and surprises the public, but posters such as these, although nonviolent achieved the same effects.

The poster has images of women at their best; in jobs such as Mayors, Nurses and Doctors. These jobs are of high occupation, and are respectable in every way. But the women in those positions were not even allowed to vote. They contrast the best of women who are not allowed to vote, with the very worse of men, who are allowed to vote. The words on the poster explains that even though the women...