After the attendees of a 1910 meeting in Copenhagen proposed that one day each year be set aside to honor the women’s rights movement and build support for universal suffrage, International ...

Let’s take a moment to celebrate the hard-won achievements of the UK’s feminist movement ... women from across the country to from an umbrella group for black women’s organisations. It has been called ...

The women's rights movement has begun. 1851: Sojourner Truth, an abolitionist, women's rights activist and former slave, delivers the famous "Ain't I a Woman" speech at the Ohio Women's Rights ...

Although 8.5 million women met these criteria, it only represented 40 per cent of the total population of women in the UK. The same act ... aged 21 and over the same rights. Emily Davison was ...

who had certain property rights. Want to know more about what led to this historic date? See the definitive timeline to how women in the UK got the vote below... 1832: Women excluded from the ...

Scroll horizontally across the timeline, which begins at 1892, to see how women’s political rights have changed across the world over time. Clicking on a statistic expands it to show more details.

The votes-for-women movement exploded in popularity the UK in 1903 - hence this year's centenary celebrations ... joined the suffragettes and was jailed in 1908. Her stand for her rights is something ...

From Suffragettes to Spice Girls, take a look at how the women's movement has changed in Australia ... founding the Women's Social and Political Union in the UK to push for the right to vote.

Fern Riddell is the author of Death in 10 Minutes - Kitty Marion: Activist, Arsonist, Suffragette Helen Pankhurst is the author of Deeds Not Words: The Story of Women's Rights, Then and Now.