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Both suffragettes and police spoke of a "Reign of Terror"; newspaper headlines referred to "Suffragette Terrorism". [45] One suffragette, Emily Davison, died under the King's horse, Anmer, at The Derby on 4 June 1913. It is debated whether she was trying to pull down the horse, attach a suffragette scarf or banner to it, or commit suicide to ...
An attempt to achieve equal franchise gained national attention when an envoy of 300 women, representing over 125,000 suffragettes, argued for women's suffrage with the Prime Minister, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. The Prime Minister agreed with their argument but "was obliged to do nothing at all about it" and so urged the women to "go on ...
Fusae Ichikawa (1893–1981) – politician who founded the nation's first women's suffrage organization: the Women's Suffrage League of Japan, president of the New Japan Women's League; Shidzue KatÅ (1897–2001) – politician; Oku Mumeo (1895–1997) – co-founder of the New Women's Association who later served three terms in Japan's ...
Dublin Women's Suffrage Association – major Irish organization. [11]Irish Women's Franchise League – founded in 1908, more radical than the Dublin Association. [12]Irish Women's Suffrage Society – founded by Isabella Tod as the North of Ireland Women's Suffrage Society in 1872, it was based in Belfast but had branches in other parts of the north.
Universal suffrage was established in 1840, which meant that women could vote. Opposition resulted in a specific denial of women's suffrage in the 1852 constitution. Honduras: 1955 Hong Kong: 1949 Hungarian Republic: 1919 (partial) 1945 (full) After 1919 men could vote from the age of 24 while women only gained the right to vote from the age of 30.
By the end of the year, 240 people had been sent to prison for militant suffragette activities. [2] Christabel Pankhurst set up a new weekly WSPU newspaper at this time named The Suffragette. [20] The newspaper began devoting double-page spreads to reporting the bomb and arson attacks that were now regularly occurring around the country.
Women make up 51 percent of the U.S. population. And though we are by no means a monolith — in fact, we fall into every ethnic, socioeconomic, religious and ideological group — we have historically been underrepresented politically.
The punishment for both the person performing an abortion and the pregnant woman who procured the abortion were 3–6 months if she was unmarried; and 6 months-1 year if she was married. The punishments increased if the woman didn't consent to the abortion, if she was severely injured, or if she died.