I feel it impossible to withhold from women the power and the right of making their voices heard"7 providing evidence that the government had no excuse not to include women as equal members of society. ... Some of these political figures included Keir Hardie,15 Labour Politician and Lloyd George from the Liberal Party.16 Liberal MP Campbell Bannerman had told the NUWSS that he was in favour of women receiving the vote, however his cabinet was divided.17 The political alliances created by the suffragists gave them a voice in Parliament and by 1912 they had achieved alliances with many MPs,...

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The Women's Christian Temperance Union Historically many women devoted their whole life to their families and societies. The only name they could use in public was the family name or the husband name. They even had no right to vote since the vote unit was the family at that time. In other w...

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Contrary to common belief, women were important contributors to the popular movement during the French Revolution. They staged demonstrations and food riots, presented petitions to the National Assembly, and brought the royal family back to the governmental capital. They agitated ceaselessly for ...

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