... women to go out to work. In fact, the number of women who were in employment was only about five million in 1914, however at the end of the war this had gone up to just over six million. In 1915, the WSPU organized the 'Women's Right to Serve' march. The suffragettes renamed their paper Britannia and formed the Women's Party in order to encourage women to work for their country by giving them self-confidence and pride. Suffragettes ended up becoming much more patriotic than men. They demanded conscription and they even started giving white feathers (symbols of cowardice) to men who were not in military uniform. The suffragettes put a lot of effort and they tried to help their country to win the war. As a matter of fact, their enthusiasm made it hard for the government to refuse women to vote since the suffragettes helped the government not ...

See this essay or coursework document in full right now