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Issues commonly associated with notions of women's rights include, though are not limited to, the right to bodily integrity and autonomy; to vote (universal suffrage); to hold public office; to work; to fair wages or equal pay; to own property; to education; to serve in the military; to enter into legal contracts; and to have marital, parental ...
The 1906 WSPU march on 19 February 1906 was the first march held in London to demand the right to vote for women in the United Kingdom.Organized by Sylvia Pankhurst and Annie Kenney of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), the event saw around 300–400 women march through central London to the House of Commons.
This is a list of Washington, D.C., suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Washington, D.C. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
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The team was founded in 1897 by the merger of the National Central Society for Women's Suffrage and the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage, the groups having originally split in 1888. The groups united under the leadership of Millicent Fawcett, who was the president of the society for more than twenty years. [3]
Oreola Williams Haskell (1875–1953) – prolific author and poet, who worked alongside other notable suffrage activists, such as Carrie Chapman Catt, Mary Garrett Hay, and Ida Husted Harper. [72] Mary Garrett Hay (1857–1928) – suffrage organizer around the United States. [73] Elsie Hill (1883–1970) – NWP activist. [74]
Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president in the U.S. and she made her historic run in 1872 – before women even had the right to vote! She supported women's suffrage as well as welfare for the poor, and though it was frowned upon at the time, she didn't shy away from being vocal about sexual freedom.
Anti-suffrage organizations in Australia were "closely associated with the Conservative Party, [clarification needed] manufacturing interests and anti-socialist forces." [9] The Australian media took part in the anti-suffrage movement, and depicted women as being "weak and unintelligent," emotional and too involved in domestic and trivial ...