It was hard won. Women of all classes were imprisoned and reviled for their attempts to create a fairer society.
And there is still some way to go.
Quite a difficult outfit to do much protesting in!
Last night a lantern procession of celebration wound it's way through the streets of Bristol, one of many similar events held throughout the country.
Several schools in Bristol, a city that was very active in the suffragette movement, made banners and rosettes in the suffragette colours. It's good to remind young girls and women today that great sacrifices were made in the past for what we now take for granted. It remains important to continue to make demands for equality.
19 September 1893 was the date when women here in New Zealand got the right to vote.
ReplyDeleteThat seems a good date, Susan, compared with many countries.
DeleteSeems impossibly barbaric that women didn't always have the right to vote, doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteI feel it's pretty barbaric that there is still isn't equal pay for some women for equal work. There are still rights to fight for.
DeleteHow bold these women must have been!
ReplyDeleteFirst time women held seats in the Austrian parliament (1919):
https://www.oesterreich100.at/fileadmin/_processed_/9/a/csm_1918_19_Frauen_erstmals_im_Parlament_03b810f4be.jpg
Until 1930 women's votes had been monitored by men: envelopes had two colours, one colour for women, one for men.
Those coloured envelopes!! Rather like the eleven plus exam from my childhood. More girls passed the tests than boys, so their marks were lowered!
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