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The Role of Women in the Edwardian Era
All women in the Edwardian era were educated very little
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Although poorer children only learnt to cook, clean,
read and maybe some sums and history, they did not have access to “higher” education like
the upper-class women did
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If a servant met someone they would leave the service and become a wife and
mother
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They
could earn money for themselves until they were married
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Because middle-class women enjoyed more freedom, they deeply supported
the women’s rights movement
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Everyone thought that the men would “be back by Christmas”, when in fact
it was much later than that when not many of them returned
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Young men saw it as masculine and a just cause – it was seen as
an adventure
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However, many young men were pressured into volunteering because
of peer pressure, impressing women and the respect that came from wearing a uniform and
“doing your bit”
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War propaganda was everywhere pressuring young men to sign up
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This
was because of many successes by different unions, especially unions to do with women’s
rights
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The success of
the women match workers’ strike in 1888 and the Gasworkers’ and Dockers’ strikes in 1889
inspired trade unionism among unskilled, semi-skilled, white collar and professional workers
to spread rapidly
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They won their demands and their victory
was ensured by the financial support received from other trade unionists, including a
£30,000 donation from Australia

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