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What did poor women do at the start of the twentieth century? |
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| At the start of the twentieth century poor women worked in very bad conditions. |
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| What did rich women do at the start of the twentieth century? |
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| At the start of the twentieth century rich women stayed at home. |
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How did Florence Nightingale get her name? |
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| Florence Nightingale got her name from the city of Florence, where she was born in 1982. |
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What job did Florence Nightingale do? |
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| Florence Nightingale was a nurse. |
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When did Florence Nightingale go to Istanbul? |
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| Florence Nightingale went to Istanbul in 1845 when the Crimean War started. There she helped in a military hospital. |
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Who were the suffragettes? |
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| The suffragettes were women followers of Emmeline Pankhurst. |
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Where did the suffragettes come from? |
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| The suffragettes came from all social classes. |
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| Who was the suffragettes' leader? |
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| Their leader was Emmeline Pankhurst. |
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| What does “suffrage” mean? |
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| The word “suffrage” means “right to vote |
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Why did some of the suffragettes go to prison? |
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| Some of the suffragettes went to prison because of their actions |
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Why did those women stop their action in 1914? |
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| The women stopped their action in 1914 when the First World War started. |
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When did women in Britain get the same voting rights as men? |
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| Women in Britain got the same voting rights as men in 1918 at the end of the First World War but only those women who were more than 30 years and who were married with a home. |
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| What is the position of women in today’s society? Do women have the same rights as men? |
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| In today’s society women have the same rights as men according to the law but sometimes some people, especially men, do not agree |
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