Pankhurst also did a deal with Lord Balfour that if they supported WW1 recruitment middle class women would get the vote post war. Hence the white feather campaign in the UK and here in Australia. Rich entitled women shaming men to go to the western front.

These women had no shame my grandfather a doctor on the western front (think the film 1917 with my grandad's batman shooting the hopelessly wounded with granddad' revolver and with no morphia Then whilst on leave in London grandad was having a meal with a friend who was in civilian clothing when a bumptious suffragette stormed up handed his friend 'the feather' and called him a coward. My grandfather's friend then called the waiter to bring his crutches for you see he had lost a leg at the battle of Loos!

Some women had the vote in some cases where other women and men did not. There were property or educational franchises in most state upper houses in Australia until the 1950's and with local councils until the 1980's. Hence my grandmother could vote for the the Victorian legislative council and the local council when many men could not. I was pilloried for raising this (as a teacher) of a compulsory year 11 subject called Australian studies.