Question

What cultural shift does the penny represent?

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer is that the cultural shift does the penny represent is option C: Women becoming more concerned with their rights and less concerned with acting ladylike.

Explanation:

During the suffragate era in England so the Penny as a way of devalued them and started the movement for equality.

Answer 2

Answer: Women becoming more concerned with their rights and less concerned with acting "ladylike".

Explanation:

At the beginning of Edward VII's government, women were denied the right to vote. Engraving coins with the slogan "Votes for Women" was one of the means suffragettes found to spread their desire of universal vote. They chose to do this with pennies because it was the most used coin and being so small a denomination they weren´t usually recalled by the Bank.