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THE LONG STRUGGLE FOR EQUALITY
The fight for universal suffrage began in the Victorian era and continued into the first decades of 20th century
In the 19th century most ordinary women were struggling for basic rights:
-their wages were half of a man's
-it was believed that woman's purpose in life was only to be a good
wife
and a
mother
so there wasn't much motivation to establish a career
They had to take care of children and to do housework
They married in early twenties
All their possessions became the property of the husbands
They lost most of their rights
In 1832 the first petition for women's suffrage was presented to Parliament. In the following years, many women fought for their rights
Emmeline Pankhurst
, born in 1858 in Manchester, came from a family that supported progressive political causes and she wasn't satisfied with Unions polite tactics and its attitude towards working-class women
She married Dr. Richard Pankhurst, a lawyer who had written the Married Women's Property Act, that allowed women to keep their property after marrriage
In 1903, she founded the
Women's Social and Political Union
(
WSPU
)
The WSPU's protest were public and frequent and they became also violent
Medias gave the activists the ridiculous nickname of "
suffragettes
"
In 1908, Emmeline was arrested for trying to enter the Parliament buildings without permission to speak to the Prime Minister. She'd be arrested and jailed 7 times before vote was granted to women
In 1908, when Asquith became Prime Minister, Emmeline and WSPU held a protest in Hyde Park, attended by 250.000 people, making it the largest political demostration in London
In 1909, a young politician, Winston Churchill, was chased by a WSPU member
By the mid 1900s, over 250 "suffragettes" had been arrested and jailed for their activities
Its goal was gaining votes for all the adult women
In 1913, Emmeline travelled to the USA to raise founds for women's suffrage
There, she gave one of her most famous speeches: "Freedom or Death"
During WWI the protests came to a temporary stop and women entered the workforce
This gained them a wider support:
in 1916 Asquith made a statement in support of women's suffrage
in 1918 was passed the " Representation of the People Act"
in 1919 was elected the first female MP in Britain, Nancy Astor
After 9 years, in 1928, the Representation of the People Act granted the right to vote to all British citizens over 21 years old
In 1834,
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
founded the National Union of Women's Suffrage
Fawcett and her followers put middle-class women first and thought that they should get the vote before working-class women who didn't own property
Emily Wilding Davison was a protester that in 1913 was killed after stepping in front of King George V's horse at popular race
She inspired simpathy for the suffregettes and greater public support for their cause
By 1914, 5.000 members of WSPU and 50.000 members of National Union of Women's Suffrage supported the cause
Women fight for universal suffrage spread all over the world
In 1868, in Paris, the
Association Internationale des femmes
was born
In March and April 1888, women leaders came together in Washington D.C: with 49 delegates representing 53 women's organizations from 9 countries and they founded the
International Council of Women
In Italy, in 1881, Anna Maria Mozzoni founded an indipendent association linked to the socialist movement:
Lega promotrice dei diritti delle donne
