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The militant suffragette movement was suspended during the war and never resumed. British society credited the new patriotic roles women played as earning them the vote in 1918. [53] However, British historians no longer emphasize the granting of woman suffrage as a reward for women's participation in war work.
Issues that had been identified as important by voters who were likely to vote remain included the impact on Britain's economy (40%), the number of immigrants coming into Britain (15%), Britain's ability to trade with countries in the European Union (12%), the impact on British jobs (11%), the impact on the rights of British workers (10% ...
Tennis spread from upper-class estates into tennis clubs in middle-class suburbs, where it became a woman's specialty. [99] Women increasingly frequented gyms, which sprang up everywhere; by the mid-1990s, one in six members were women. [100] Middle-class men and women were usually more active than working-class people were.
In the European Parliament, Brexit led to changes in group representation: Brexit gave 5 seats to the EPP and 3 seats to the ID, while 29 seats were lost by the NI (including Brexit party) 11 seats lost by the Renew Europe (LibDem) 7 seats losts by the green, and six seats lost by the alliance of socialists and democrats (S&D).
Bateman is a frequent critic of Brexit, arguing that "Brexit leaves Britain naked", [15] and that leaving the EU would hurt low-income families, [16] damage British scientific research, [17] would reduce trade and investment, and would place freedom for the nation state ahead of freedom for the individual. [18]
Increased women's education is important for achieving this as it targets the impoverished women, a particularly disadvantaged group. [11] There is also evidence that lower gender disparity in educational attainment for a developing country correlates with lower overall income disparity within society.
[10] [11] The role of women in society was, for the historical era, relatively unconstrained; Spanish and Italian visitors to England commented regularly, and sometimes caustically, on the freedom that women enjoyed in England, in contrast to their home cultures. England had more well-educated upper-class women than was common anywhere in Europe.
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