How did women fight in the women suffrage movement?

Answer 1

The millitant campaigners, known as the suffragettes, had a policy of never harming other people. Their tactics included:

• Breaking windows
• Daubing grafitti on police buildings and wagons
• Blowing up postboxes
• Pouring acid on Golf courses, so it would display the message "Votes for Women!"
• Attempting to break into the Houses of Parliament
• Getting chained to railings
• One suffragette, Emily Davison, comitted suicide at the Derby, a horse race in Epsom, when she jumped in front of a horse that belonged to the King

Many Suffragettes went on hunger strike while in prison. Prisons resorted to force feeding them, a painful and disgusting process which involved shoving a tube down the (fully concious) victim's throat and pouring mushed food through it. In response to the negative publicity, the government passed a law which later became nicknamed the "Cat and Mouse Act", which allowed unwell hunger strikers to be released, and later re-arrested

Answer 2

While a few women, including Abigail Adams (wife of President John Adams) wanted to see married women have more rights-- under the common law, a married woman was under the command of her husband and had little legal standing, no matter what decisions he made-- women in the United States first formally began to argue for women's rights at a conference in 1848 at Seneca Falls, New York.

Women who wanted more legal rights gave speeches, marched, demonstrated, and gradually won more men (and even some skeptical women) over to their point of view. Some well-respected feminists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, Belva Lockwood, and others also wrote essays and books about the need for women's rights. But it took a long time before women achieved equal rights under the law. Although they finally won the right to vote in 1920, there were other laws that continued to discriminate against them until the 1970s. In the 1960s and 1970s, a new generation of feminists, including Bella Abzug, Gloria Steinem, Shirley Chisholm, and Betty Friedan spoke out about this kind of discrimination and worked to gain greater opportunity for women.

Answer 3

mostly the difference between the average man's salary and the average woman's salary