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Mary Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792, a foundational feminist text that argues for women's equal education and rational development. It challenges societal views that confined women to decorative roles and advocates for women as independent, virtuous beings contributing to society, establishing them as key figures in modern feminism. -
The Great Reform Act of 1832 formally and explicitly excluded women from voting in parliamentary elections by defining a voter as a male person. Another change brought by the 1832 Reform Act was the formal exclusion of women from voting in Parliamentary elections, as a voter was defined in the Act as a male person. -
The Subjection of Women is an essay by English philosopher, political economist, and civil servant John Stuart Mill, published in 1869, with ideas he developed jointly with his wife, Harriet Taylor Mill. J.S. -
It allowed married women to keep their wages and investments independent of their husbands, inherit small sums, hold property either rented or inherited from close family, and made both parents liable for children. -
The organisation was democratic and non-militant, aiming to achieve women's suffrage through peaceful and legal means, in particular by introducing Parliamentary Bills and holding meetings to explain and promote their aims. -
The Women's Social and Political Union was a women-only political movement and the leading militant organisation campaigning for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, founded in 1903. -
In 1918, the Representation of the People Act was passed, which allowed women over the age of 30 who met a property qualification to vote. -
Extended the right to vote to women on the same terms as men, meaning both could vote from age 21 without property restrictions. It created full electoral parity between sexes, adding about 5 million women to the voting rolls. -
A UK law that prohibited less favorable treatment between men and women in terms of pay and conditions of employment for like work, work of equal value, or work rated as equivalent. -
It was a celebration to represent the people's act that gave women the right to vote, and also honored the decades-long Suffragette movement.