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The suffragette movement started in the middle of the 19th

century. Women demanded the right to vote and better education for girls.

However, there was strong opposition. Many men argued that women were less

intelligent  4 ______men,

and could not make important decisions.

The first suffragettes believed 5 ______

being legal and peaceful. They wrote letters to Parliament. Nobody noticed

them. By 1903, a woman called Emmeline

Pankhurst and her daughters encouraged women to 6 ______ the

law. Soon the newspapers were full of shocking stories

about these new-style suffragettes.

What did they do? They marched through the streets and

7 ______ shop windows. Some

women chained themselves to the railings outside Parliament. They had to be

very courageous. Many women went to prison.

Gradually, opinion changed. Many members of Parliament

now wanted votes for women, but still nothing happened. During the First World

War, women had to do men's jobs. Only after this, women aged thirty and over

got the vote. Ten years later, in 1928, women of twenty-one could vote.

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