https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo en-us 2018-03-24 12:08:22 UTC 2025-11-08 07:41:17 UTC hello@padlet.com cactusalix https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245720778 The move for women to have the vote had really started in 1897 when Millicent Fawcett founded theNational Union of Women’s Suffrage. “Suffrage” means the right to vote and that is what women wanted – hence its inclusion in Fawcett’s title. ]]> 2018-03-24 12:11:36 UTC https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245720778 cactusalix https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245721460 2018-03-24 12:21:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245721460 cactusalix https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245721494 This left many women angry and in 1903 the Women’s Social and Political Union
was founded by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia.
They wanted women to have the right to vote and they were not prepared to wait.
The Union became better known as the Suffragettes. Members of the Suffragetteswere prepared to use violence to get what they wanted.]]> 2018-03-24 12:22:04 UTC https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245721494 cactusalix https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245721515 2018-03-24 12:22:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245721515 cactusalix https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245721522 2018-03-24 12:22:30 UTC https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245721522 cactusalix https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245721613 2018-03-24 12:23:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245721613 cactusalix https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245721722 In 1832 in Great Britain is launched the first feminist petition presented to Parliament in 1851 requesting the right to vote of women. ]]> 2018-03-24 12:26:13 UTC https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245721722 cactusalix https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245721753 In 1876 in France, Hubertine Auclert founded the society The right of women which supports the right to vote for women and which becomes in 1883 the suffrage of women. ]]> 2018-03-24 12:26:34 UTC https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245721753 cactusalix https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245721778 In the United Kingdom, in 1897, Millicent Fawcett founded the National Union of Women's Suffrage to obtain the right to vote for women. Hoping to achieve it by peaceful means, Fawcett gave arguments to convince men, only to have the power to give women the right to vote. ]]> 2018-03-24 12:26:49 UTC https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245721778 cactusalix https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245721811 In 1903, Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), and with her three daughters Christabel, Sylvia and Adela, and a group of British women quickly named suffragettes, began a more violent battle for to achieve equality between men and women. ]]> 2018-03-24 12:27:29 UTC https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245721811 cactusalix https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245721829 In 1905, Christabel and Annie Kenney were arrested for shouting slogans in favor of the women's vote at a political meeting of the Liberal Party. T ]]> 2018-03-24 12:27:47 UTC https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245721829 cactusalix https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245721885 Alix Putman ]]> 2018-03-24 12:28:28 UTC https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245721885 cactusalix https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245721903 2018-03-24 12:28:50 UTC https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245721903 cactusalix https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245721943 The suffragettes had what they considered their first martyrdom in 1913 when Emily Davison was killed while trying to stop the horse of King George V, who was participating in a derby. ]]> 2018-03-24 12:29:31 UTC https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245721943 cactusalix https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245721972 2018-03-24 12:30:03 UTC https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245721972 cactusalix https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245721977 2018-03-24 12:30:11 UTC https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245721977 cactusalix https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245722039 In 1918, the United Kingdom Parliament passed a law (the Representation of the People Act 1918) granting the right to vote to women over 30 years of age who are landlords or tenants - or whose spouse is - with annual rent over £ 5, as well as UK university graduates. ]]> 2018-03-24 12:31:00 UTC https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245722039 cactusalix https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245722117 In 1928 they obtained their status as electricians on the same terms as men. The United Kingdom was the eighth country to give women the right to vote. 

]]> 2018-03-24 12:32:05 UTC https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245722117 cactusalix https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245722144 The first was New Zealand (1893). It was then Australia (1902) and Finland (1906). The United States, at the federal level, adopted it in 1919.

]]> 2018-03-24 12:32:37 UTC https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245722144 cactusalix https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245722186 In France, women had this right only in 1944, at the end of the Second World War. ]]> 2018-03-24 12:33:22 UTC https://padlet.com/cactusalix/c5072eehwujo/wish/245722186