The Changing Role of Women: 1860-1930

By morganm97

  • Custody of Children Act

  • Frances Mary Buss founded the North London Collegiate School for Ladies

  • Matrimonial Causes Act

  • Sewing Machine invented

  • Dorothea Beale became principle of Cheltenham Ladies College

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    The Changing Role of Women: 1860-1930

  • 1st Contagious Diseases Act

  • Schools Enquiry Commission set up to investiagate the education of children from MC homes

  • JS Mill elected as an MP

  • Elizabeth Garrett Anderson becomes the first women on the British Medical Register

  • Formation of Kensington Society

  • 2nd Contagious Diseases Act

  • Women's Suffrage Committee founded in London

  • Manchester Society for Women's Suffrage Founded

    Lydia Becker as secretary.

  • Reform Act

    Vote for working class men

  • 2nd Reform Act

  • Agricultural Gangs Act

  • Lily Maxwell and 9 others women vote in general election

  • 3rd Contagious Diseases Act

  • Josephine Butler forms the Ladies National Association

  • Municiple Franchise Act

    Unmarried women ratepayers can vote in municiple ellections.

  • First women's college at Cambridge University founded in Hitchin

  • Education Act

    Every child could have access to elementary education

  • First Married Women's Property Act

  • Education Act

    Women ratepayers can vote for, and serve on new school boards.

  • R Pankhurst introduces first private members suffrage bill to parliment

  • Forster's Education Act provides a dual system with state and volentary schools

  • Newnham College, Cambridge, founded

  • National Society for Women's suffrage combines local women's suffrage groups

  • Second Custody of Infants Act

  • Factory Act

  • First woman elected to serve on Poor Law Boards

  • Women make up more than 50% of all elementary school teachers

  • Emma Paterson founds the Women's Protective and Provident League

  • Sandon's Act, penalised parents who kept their children away fom school

  • Enabling Bill: medical corporations had to admit women to their examinations

  • Factory and Workshop Act

  • Elementary Education Made compulsory

  • Mundella's Act made education compulsory for children under 13

  • Johnson Case

    A man cannot compel a wife to live with him

  • First Women's Libera Association formed in Bristol

  • Invention of typewriter

    Greater job oppertunities for women

  • Second Married Women's Propety Act

  • Primrose League established

  • Reform Act

    Gave vote to every 2/3 men

  • Women aquire indipendant legal status

  • Age of consent raised from 13 to 16

  • Married Women Act

    Maintenance in case of desertion Act

  • Guardianship of Infants Act

  • Repeal of CDA's

  • Women's Liberal Foundation Established

  • Contagious Diseases Act Suspended

  • Annie Besant organises the first strike at Bryant and May's match factory

  • Formation of Women's Suffrage League with Emmeline Pankhurst as leader

  • An Appeal against female suffrage

    Sugned by over 100 mostly titled women

  • Elementary education free and compulsory up to age 12

  • Women make up 59% workers in clothing trade

  • Government made education free in elementary schools

  • St Hilda's College, Oxford founded

  • School leaving age: 11

  • School leaving age 11

  • Women allowed to become factory inspectors

  • Local Government Act

    Married Women can vote in local elections and allowed women to stand for election as municiple councillors

  • Local Gov Act

  • Factory Act

    Children under 11 banned from employment

  • Women are not allowed to be employed 4 weeks after giving birth

  • Faithful Begg present a women's suffrage bill to parliment

  • NUWSS formed with Milicent Fawcett as president

  • School leaving age: 12

  • School leaving age 12

  • Factory Act

    Reduces by an hour a day how much women can work

  • Scholarships established

    Poorer children could go to secondary school

  • Balfour's Act

    Local education authorities take over education from school boards

  • WSPU established

  • Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney arrested for causing a disturbance

  • Equirery into women's work by Edward Cadbury

    Shows women believe they should earn less for doing the same job as men

  • WSPU moved to London!

  • Daily Mail nicknames WSPU members "suffragettes"

  • Liberal Party Won Landslide election victory

  • Free schoolmeals for poor children

  • Votes for women founded

  • Charlotte Despard and Teresa Billington Grey expelled from WSPU

  • Free medical insepctions introdced for children of the poor

  • Free places in secondary schools available for children of the poor

  • First window smashing

  • Women chained themselves to railings for the first time

  • "Women's Sunday" organised by WSPU

  • Beginning or organised heckling of cabinet ministers

  • Women's suffrage Bill carried by 179 votes

  • Force feeding introduced

  • 2nd Reading of Electoral reform bill banned from Liberal meetings

  • Trade Boards Act

  • Fewer than 10% married women in paid employment

  • "Black Friday"

  • Concilliation bill carried by 139 votes

  • "March of the Women" composed by Ethel Smyth

  • May: second concilliation bill debated

  • November: Second Concilliation Bill Failiure

  • Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence expelled from WSPU

  • Emmeline Pankhurst makes a speech urging greater militancy

  • Third Concilliation bill failed at 2nd reading

  • Emily Davidson dies at Epsom Derby

  • Amendment to franchise bill ruled out by Speaker

  • 'The Prisoners Termporary Discharge for Ill-Health Act' (Cat and Mouse)

  • Shop Acts

    64 hour working week for shop work

  • Sylvia Pankhurst expelled from WSPU

  • March: Government closes Galleries because Rokeby Venus slashed by suffragette

  • August: Britain declares was or Germany

  • August: WSPU suspend Millitancy

  • World War offers new opportunities for women

  • Coalition Gov set up

  • War register set up

  • Right to Work march

  • David Lloyd George become PM

  • Speaker's Conference Set Up

  • Women over the age of 30 given the vote

  • Constance Markiewicz elected to parliment

  • Fisher's Act raised school leaving age to 14

  • November: War ends

  • Sex disqualification act

  • Nancy Astor becomes first women MP to take her seat

  • Sex Disqualification Removal Act

  • Pre-War Practises Act

  • Married women's property act extended to Scotland

  • Married Women's Maintenance Act

  • Infanticide Act

  • Matrimonial Causes Act

  • Bastardy Act

  • The Widows, Orphans and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act

  • Guardianship of Infants Act

  • Equal sufferage for men and women over 21

  • Introduction of the telephone