... militant WSPUs threw their resources behind the Government’s war effort The National Union of Womens’ Suffrage Societies and Eleanor Rathbone’s Liverpool Women’s Suffrage Society continued their campaign throughout still lobbying still pressing quietly behind ...

... Suffrage Committee established 1867 - Women’s suffrage amendment to Reform Bill introduced by John Stuart Mill 1914 - Women’s Service Bureau established February 6 1918 - Royal Assent for the vote for women over 30 who were on the local government electoral ...

... their friends Petition Fawcett Society members are the women who have championed women’s rights since 1866 when John Stuart Mill agreed to present a petition to Parliament in favour of women’s suffrage Milicent Garrett Fawcett was in the public gallery to ...

... have been the leader of Militant Tendency or the editor of the Guardian Women’s page The early days of this century leading up to the war were the heyday of the women’s suffrage movement During that period Sylvia was perhaps outshone by her sister Christabel ...

... eagle eye of Lilian Baylis She was a member the Women’s Social and Political Union a friend Mrs Pankhurst Became a socialist When I met Lewis in Manchester he said ‘What you doing about women’s suffrage?” I said I didn’t know about it and he nearly fell ...

... organised by the Fawcett Society Britain’s oldest women’s rights organisation commemorates that first House of Commohs debate women’s suffrage May 20 1867 What pity that the House still contains so very few women Members (28) If you would like more information ...

... long cumbersome unflattering but she didn’t care particularly because mind was on higher things The lengthy fight for women’s suffrage had only ended five years ago in 1921 when got the vote So apart from struggling with the vicissitudes of the General ...

... attention that violence against women and in the home is now a major worry to Christian women The Directory of Women’s Organisations and Groups in churches and ecumenical bodies in Britain and Ireland costs £495 WOMEN’S EDITOR MARGARET KITCHEN ...

... readily available With so many women going out to work this juggling of care is fraught with difficulties Unpaid caring has traditionally been the lot of women but the women have fled to the THERE were many brave women both here and abroad who kept their ...

... Japanese women are demanding the right better careers “In economic terms Japan is an advanced country” says Mitsuko Yamaguchi director of the Women’s Suffrage Centre (WSC) which promotes women’s rights “But when it comes to the status of ...

... bourgeois women whose chief worry centres on Metrecal and calorie-counting and whose lives are incomparably freer that those of women and men elsewhere in the world Women’s Lib is eminently middle class springing from the 16 per cent of American women who have ...

... Guild arose 40 ago as teaching women to use the vote their suffragette sisters had for them Continuing our series of looks Women's Organisations today PATRICIA FEINBERG talks to the TOWNSWOMEN'S GUILD Women’s suffrage did indeed have a large part to ...