eli5 How did women end up getting the vote in England what exactly led up to it?

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eli5 How did women end up getting the vote in England what exactly led up to it?

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Only women of a certain class received the right to vote after WWI, and it was a move calculated to prevent the enfranchisement of working class men from resulting in gains for the political left. Since working class men had been sent to the front, it was no longer possible to deny them suffrage. So universal male suffrage was augmented with suffrage for women with property over a particular amount, with the intention of balancing new working class votes with more propertied votes.