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Wollstonecraft is regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers, and feminists often cite both her life and her works as important influences. During her brief career she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative , a history of the French Revolution , a conduct book , and a children's book.
1978: Sisterwrite, Britain's first feminist bookshop, [173] opened in 1978; it was run as a collective. [174] [175] [176] 1978: Organisation of Women of Asian and African Descent (OWAAD), founded 1978; was a feminist umbrella collective organising under a political black identity [177] 1979: The Kennel Club began admitting women members in 1979 ...
This group became one of the first organised women's movements in Britain. They pursued many causes vigorously, including their Married Women's Property Committee. In 1854, she published Brief Summary of the Laws of England concerning Women , [ 13 ] which helped to promote the passage of the Married Women's Property Act 1882 .
First openly gay MP (and first openly gay Cabinet minister): Chris Smith, Labour MP for Islington South and Finsbury, from 1983 to 2005 and National Heritage/Culture secretary, 1997-2001 [26] First openly gay Member of the House of Lords : Waheed Alli, Baron Alli , Labour Member of the House of Lords, 1998–present (came out in 1999)
Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett GBE (née Garrett; 11 June 1847 – 5 August 1929) was an English political activist and writer.She campaigned for women's suffrage by legal change and in 1897–1919 led Britain's largest women's rights association, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), [1] explaining, "I cannot say I became a suffragist.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836–1917) – physician, feminist, first dean of a British medical school, first female mayor, and magistrate in Britain; Louisa Garrett Anderson (1873–1943) – Chief Surgeon of Women's Hospital Corps, Fellow of Royal Society of Medicine, jailed for her suffragist activities
According to The New York Times, Britain is not the first to enforce a ban on gender discrimination or sexism in ads. Other countries like Belgium, France, Finland, Greece, Norway, South Africa ...
John Grey, Butler's father, portrait by George Patten. Josephine Grey was born on 13 April 1828 at Milfield, Northumberland.She was the fourth daughter and seventh child of Hannah (née Annett) and John Grey, a land agent and agricultural expert, [2] [3] [a] who was a cousin of the reformist British Prime Minister, Lord Grey. [5]