What is Women in the Victorian era?
{{Infobox historical era|name=Victorian|start=1837|end=1901|image=Queen_Victoria_by_Bassano.jpg|alt=|caption=[[Queen Victoria]]|before=[[Regency era]]|including=|after=[[Edwardian era]]|monarch=Queen Victoria|leaders=}} The [[Gender equality|status of women]] in the [[Victorian era]] was often seen as an illustration of the striking discrepancy between the United Kingdom's national power and wealth. During the era symbolized by the reign of a female monarch, [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]], women did not have the right to vote,<ref>{{cite book|title=Rediscovering the British World|last=Buckner|first=Phillip Alfred|publisher=University of Calgary Press|year=2005|location=Calgary}}</ref> sue,<ref>{{cite book|title=The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum|url=https://archive.org/details/blackeststreetsl0000sara|last=Wise|first=Sarah|publisher=Vintage Books|year=2009|isbn=978-1-84413-331-4|location=London|pages=[https://archive.org/details/blackeststreetsl0000sara/page/112 112]}}</ref> or &#x2013; if married &#x2013; own property.<ref>{{cite book|title=Rediscovering the British World|last=Buckner|first=Phillip Alfred|publisher=Calgary University Press|year=2005|location=Calgary|page=137}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Kreps|first=Barbara Irene|date=Spring 2002|title=The Paradox of Women: The Legal Position of Early Modern Wives and Thomas Dekker's ''The Honest Whore''|journal=ELH|volume=69|issue=1|pages=83–102|doi=10.1353/elh.2002.0007|s2cid=144628070}}</ref> At the same time, women participated in the paid workforce in increasing numbers following the [[Industrial Revolution]]. Feminist ideas spread among the educated middle classes, discriminatory laws were repealed, and the [[women's suffrage]] movement gained momentum in the last years of the Victorian era. [[File:George_William_Joy_-_The_Bayswater_Omnibus.jpg|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:George_William_Joy_-_The_Bayswater_Omnibus.jpg|thumb|400x400px|[[George William Joy]]'s depiction of men and women travelling i