Explain the role played by women in France during the revolutionary years.

Women played a major role to improve their condition in France during the revolutionary years which were:

• They wanted to improve their lives, so they decided to increase their involvement. Women worked hard to earn for their livelihood especially the women of third estate and they were even not allowed to pursue education or for job training.

• Some of the jobs done by women were: Laundresses, selling flowers, selling fruits and vegetables, employed as domestic servants.

• The constitution of 1791 didn’t provide any rights to women. So they demanded Right to Vote and express their desire to hold political office.

• To force the government to listen to their demands and to discuss their interests they started political clubs and newspapers. Around sixty such clubs were started by women. Famous women clubs emerged were – The Society of Revolutionary and The Republican Women. Their main agenda was that women should also be provided with the same political rights as that of men.

• Also, they wanted equal political rights, so they continued their revolution. Equal wages and Right to vote was their demand which the achieved in 1946 after so much struggle. They were granted Right to Vote in France in 1946.