What were the arguments for and against women's suffrage?

Answer 1

"Not all that convincing" in brief. Churchill argued that he felt it was unpopular in the country; he wanted a referendum to find out if women wanted it and if the population as whole wanted it. The irony in women voting to decide if they wanted to vote seems obvious in retrospect. The disruptive action by supporters of women suffrage probably had a negative affect - Churchill started of fairly ambivalent to the issue but after some of his meetings were disrupted by demonstrations, he became more opposed.

Answer 2

Historically, those tasks associated with "homemaking" were incredibly time consuming - having chicken for dinner means running around the yard to catch it, kill it, pluck it, prepare it, bake it in a stove with no temperature control, and somehow make it taste good. New school clothes for the kids could take a month to make before the singer machine. And without Birth Control or real medicine, women often had several children to take care of and at high risk of dying young in childbirth. One way of looking at it is that society wasn't including women because it was presumed they had too much to do. It is no accident that the suffrage movement developed at exactly the same time home machines such as sewing machines and iceboxes came into use. It would be difficult to make an argument against suffrage today.