ART INTEGEGRATED PROJECT - French Revolution
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- Women should also get the same rights as men !
- Schooling has become compulsory .
- We can't be forced into marriage and divorce is legal .
- We can train for various professions now .
- From the very beginning women were active participants in the events which brought about important changes in French society. They hoped that their involvement would pressurize the revolutionary government to introduce measures to improve their lives. Most women of the third estate had to work for a living. They worked asseamstresses , laundresses, domestic servants , etc. in the houses ofprosperous people. Most women did not have access to education or job training. Working women had also to care for their families.
- In order to discuss and voice their interests women started their own political clubs and newspapers. The Society of Revolutionary and Republican Women was the most famous of them. One of their main demands was that women enjoy the same political rights as men. They demanded the right to vote, to be elected to the Assembly and to hold political office. Only then, they felt, would their interests be represented in the new government.
- In the early years, the revolutionary government did introduce lawsthat helped improve the lives of women. Together with the creationof state schools, schooling was made compulsory for all girls. Theirfathers could no longer force them into marriage against their will.Marriage was made into a contract entered into freely and registeredunder civil law. Divorce was made legal. Women could now train for jobs, could become artists or run small businesses.
- Women's struggle for equal political rights, however, continued.During the Reign of Terror, the new government issued laws orderingclosure of women's clubs and banning their political activities. Manyprominent women were arrested and a number of them executed.
- Women's movements for voting rights and equal wages continuedthrough the next two hundred years in many countries of the world.The fight for the vote was carried out through an internationalsuffrage movement during the late nineteenth and early twentiethcenturies. It was finally in 1946 that women in France won the right to vote.
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