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Gendered Workplace Environments

Assessment - The Path to Women's Suffrage

Task
You will choose a country in which women fought for suffrage, and produce an informative poster entitled ‘The Path to Women's Suffrage'. An informative poster involves using analysis with supporting visuals to represent data, patterns, trends and relationships.

Assessment Description
The assessment will allow students to demonstrate their critical reflection on the impact of key milestones in the global historical movement on women's equality at work.

Assessment Instructions

The fight for women's suffrage was difficult. Across many societies, it was affected by many things including differences in culture as well as views of class and race. Women's fight for social justice still includes equal pay, health rights and education. These battles could only be fought once women got the right to vote.

When constructing your poster, you should follow these steps:

Choose a Country: Select a country where women fought for suffrage.

Research Suffrage in Your Chosen Country: Explore major milestones and key events in the suffrage movement. Investigate how women finally achieved the right to vote.

Critical Analysis of Research: Analyse your findings using various artifacts such as historical timelines and visual representations. Evaluate the causes and effects of major milestones in the suffrage movement.

Reflect on Challenges: Critically reflect on the challenges faced by women and their supporters during the suffrage movement.

Examine Post-Suffrage Changes: Research and critically reflect on the changes that occurred in your chosen country after women gained suffrage rights.

Poster (1200 words): Compile your artifacts and findings into a poster. Include photographs and images to support your analysis.

Key Areas to Cover on your Poster:

Meaning, Principles, and Goals of Suffrage: Explain what suffrage meant in your chosen country and its core principles and goals.

Status of Women Before Suffrage: Describe the societal status of women in your chosen country prior to gaining suffrage rights.

Approaches to Suffrage: Discuss different strategies and approaches used by women and their supporters to achieve suffrage.

Challenges and Wins: Identify the challenges, dangers, and victories experienced by women and their allies during the suffrage movement.

Impact of Suffrage: Evaluate how gaining suffrage rights changed the lives of women and influenced society in your chosen country.