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 ...

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 ...

Timeline: The Women's Rights Movement in the U.S. A timeline of women's rights from 1769 to the fall of Roe v. Wade Stepping Through History Historians describe two waves of feminism in history ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1928, Parliament passed the Equal Franchise Act, giving women the same voting rights as men in the UK.

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.

But the struggle for women's rights began long before then. Hayley explains how the movement evolved in Britain.

Though she wasn’t an early women’s rights activist, Clinton was fortunate to come of age just as the modern feminist movement was beginning to expand opportunities for women in the workplace ...

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 ...

Like Foster, Stone was also a part of the abolition movement against slavery, speaking on both this and women’s rights before the Massachusetts Legislature in 1853. “I am pleased to sign ...

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.