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Hace 2 días · Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. At the beginning of the 18th century, some people sought to change voting laws to allow women to vote. Liberal political parties would go on to grant women the right to vote, increasing the number of those parties' potential constituencies.
Hace 4 días · Alice and Neil talk about British suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst and her struggle to get women a better life. This week's question Which was the first country to give all women the right...
Hace 3 días · The book takes as its main focus the lives of seven individuals prior to and during their involvement in campaigns for the extension of the parliamentary franchise to British women. Their individual stories are told along with the larger story in which their activism played a part.
Hace 3 días · A feminist, nationalist, suffragette, socialist and artist, Constance was one of the most well-known of the 200 women who took part in the Easter Rising against British Imperial rule in Dublin on Easter Monday 1916.
Hace 4 días · In honor of International Women's Day on March 8th, we look back on the New York City suffragettes who paved the way for women's equality through activism.
Hace 5 días · On October 23, 1915, tens of thousands of women marched up New York City’s Fifth Avenue demanding the right to vote. This momentous suffrage parade changed the lives of countless women, whether...
Hace 21 horas · In 1928 women in Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK win the right to vote at age 21″. But they never forgot the struggle and neither should we. Be proud to say, “I am a woman who counts ...
