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Anna Munro advertising the Scottish Women's Freedom League. Women's suffrage was the seeking of the right of women to vote in elections. It was carried out by both men and women, it was a very elongated and gruelling campaign that went on for 86 years before the Representation of the People Act 1918 was introduced on 6 February 1918, which provided a few women with the right to vote.
Lilias joined the Women's Social and Political Union at that meeting. [2] In 1910, Mitchell was part of a WSPU march to the House of Commons which was broken up by the police. She was arrested, and served a short sentence in Holloway Prison. [3] By 1911-1912 she was the WSPU organiser for Aberdeen. [3]
Zheni Bozhilova-Pateva (1878–1955) – teacher, writer, and one of the most active women's rights activists of her era; Dimitrana Ivanova (1881–1960) – reform pedagogue, women's rights activist; Ekaterina Karavelova (1860–1947) – educator, translator, publicist, suffragist; Anna Karima (1871–1949) – suffragist and women's rights ...
Inglis also played a role in the early years of the Scottish Federation of Women's Suffrage Societies, acting as honorary secretary from 1906 to 1914. [10] Sarah Mair, who was a leading activist for various causes including the Edinburgh Ladies' Educational Association, became president of the society in 1907. [11]
This right was often not included in the original suffrage legislation of a state or country, resulting in both men and women campaigning to introduce legislation to enable women to vote. Actions included writing letters to newspapers and legislators, compiling petitions, holding marches and rallies and carrying out acts of violence.
Crawfurd first became active in the women's suffrage movement in about 1900, then in 1910 at a meeting in Rutherglen. [11] Agreeing with their tactics, Crawfurd became a member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) the same year. [12] Crawfurd was jailed three times for "militant" political activity during her career as an activist. [13]
[7] [8] [9] She has published a web based map of women's suffrage actions in Aberdeen. [10] Pedersen has written about the politicising of MumsNet [11] [12] and the protests by women against the Scottish Government's proposed reforms of the Gender Recognition Act. [13] Her work also extended to blogging in general [14] and police staff blogging ...
The first evidence of Low's involvement with the campaign for women's suffrage was in July 1908 when her long letter on this topic was published in The Berwick Advertiser: [3] She looked at countries where women had already been given the vote with no negative consequences; Low took some of the common arguments against women's suffrage (such as "a women's place is in the home ") and explained ...