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- 22. Women in Parliament of elected positions in the Australian Commonwealth Parliament are held by women 35.5% of Australian Senators are women 29.6% 26.7% of the Members of the House of Representatives are women Politics and Public Administration Group Parliamentary Library, Composition of Australian Parliaments by Party and Gender, as at 25 May 2009, available at www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/pol/currentwomen.pdf
- 26. The Global Gender Gap Index Australia’s ranking declining year on year Source: World Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Report 2008. http://www.weforum.org/pdf/gendergap/rankings2008.pdf
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- Academic gown indicates she had a tertiary education. This would make her an exception rather than the rule. We’ll see here that a group was lead by a charismatic leader on a cause for equality for which martyrs died. Towards the end we see the contrast between feminism then and now
- She is almost impossible to see. She appears like a shadow. Watch it... See where the horse falls and watch it again focussing on that spot.
- Remember that Suffragettes was basically a one issue group. They wanted universal suffrage – the right to vote in all elections.
- Note that her audience is mainly men. As they controlled power they were the ones she was going to have to convince.
- Being arrested helped their cause in a way. It made authorities look oppressive by treating women that way.
- Most forms of protest were based on the idea of non-co-operation.
- The gaoler always looks like the ogre when prisoners die on their watch.
- Sometimes people only get their backs up when they or their associates are punished.
- The cat represents the government policy and the women is the innocent victim – the mouse. She is wearing a red, white and green sash – the colours of the Suffragette movement. The policy is cruel is the message here and voters – male voters – should toss the government which implemented it out.
- * This incident is known as the hosepipe incident.
- This goes back to how being arrested could be a good thing. The Suffragettes then used their treatment as another form of protest.
- The “Suffragette” portrayed Emily as a martyr for their cause – see all the religious imagery. The “Daily Mail” is also sympathetic to the cause. Even though it is a skeleton it looks more sad than evil. Note the clothes. The movement is winning over wider society.
- Why would you buy a return ticket if you were intending to die at the destination?
- The bill for universal suffrage would have been passed earlier had WWI not diverted attention elsewhere. Plus women were used to work in factories thus giving them occupations and income they had never had before. There were pleased with the situation. After WWI they had to give up those jobs for the returning men thus voting rights were important again.
- Some might find the opinion that Suffragettes were failures offensive. There are two ways to look at them. 1) they got what they wanted, they had suffered greatly and some had died in the pursuit of that cause. They were exhausted and did not what to keep fighting. It was for others to take up now OR 2) they got the vote. A great example of practical feminism but they did not do anything with that right. All the direct form of oppression continued – see the next few slides. Greer and the like argue that there are social constructs – social norms, rules, conventions, NOT LAWS – which oppress women more than something like the right to vote. For example even after getting universal suffrage it took years for women to get elected and still today they are under represented. This is a result of those social constructs that do not value or respect women.
- Sacred texts and the institutions that are heavily influenced by them are one of those social constructs while contribute to the oppression of women. Second wave feminists would argue that the interpretation of sacred texts and the way those interpretations were applied to society were the root cause of the problems facing women then and not. Not the right to universal suffrage. They would not say the interpretation of sacred texts was the ONLY problem though. Think of it this way in most of the world no one has the right to vote so what difference would it make in those societies? BUT how do you legislate change – force people to change – without the right to vote. Are any gender issues raised here or in genesis? An interesting question. Aside from bearing children and breastfeeding is there anything else that could be regarded as a role ascribed to only one gender?