Campaign for Women

m to take a dress to a customer living some distance away, which resulted in their not reaching home until a late hour. Under these circumstances, many women were brought together to fight and challenge men's sexual rights over themselves, and at the same time, they became aware of the sexual injustices in society and the importance of equality and thus women's suffrage. Women also began to either organise independently or in mixed organisations. " On the other hand, these conditions actually have lead women to become active in politics because it has forced them to open up their eyes to the cruelty in some parts of society and therefore, it gave many women the aspiration for a better and more liberal society.

Married women never enjoyed the legal rights over their own properties and had to submit them to their husbands until 1882, after the Married Women's Property Act was passed. Furthermore, women in the dressmaking industry could also be made to work for an additional two hours on 30 nights in any 12 months. For instance, right after the Factory Acts of 1901 was passed, the hours of employment permissible for women and girls over 14 years old were still very long. So the image of a "new woman" was seen as a heroine and became the role model of the new generation of young women. This aspiration caused the "settlement" movement of that time, where many middle-class women shifted to live among the working class women because they were eager to help and improve their living conditions. Hilda Martindale, a factory inspector at that time who discovered the terrible conditions of women and children working in described in her book [From One Generation to Another], "workrooms were often overcrowded, dirty, ill-ventilated, and insufficiently heated. Likewise, with the increase in the rate of employment, new forms of exploitation was also created.