What Were The Arguments From The “woman’s Rights” Perspective In Favour Of Votes For Women In The Late 19th Century?

The voting system based on property ownership was inequitable to not allow the vote to women, it was argued. The reform acts of the 1800s had enfranchised less wealthy men which therefore meant that women should be rich, own lots of property but be unequal to men when it came to the vote. Along the same lines, illiterate and uneducated men had the vote but intelligent women did not.

The campaigners for votes for women said those who put money into the national purse should have some voice in its spending. They were saying, in effect, taxation was not justified without representation. Women had, by the end of the 19th Century, obtained many of the benefits of a political democracy (for example, legal improvements and entry to the professional labour market). There was also an increasing gap between women's economic participation in society and their absence from the political sphere.

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