... of domestic chores. With a lesser amount of chores to attend it would seem that women in Germany were able to take a more serious role in the public sphere. However, to have a role in society, political involvement was necessary, and their government was not allowing it. The German Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the socialist women's movement demanded that women should have the right to vote. They felt this because for one to be involved in politics the action of voting needed to be taken. At this time the socialist women's movement fought for a voting right of all adults, not just women. This organization felt that no matter what class, status or wealth, all adults deserved this right. The bourgeois women's movement however felt that women had a different role, similar to men in value, but much different in the focus of family, education and cultural values. Shortly ...

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