101 EVENTS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

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Timeline: equality for women

Women's suffrage timeline - The British Library
  • 1906:The word "suffragette" was first used to describe women campaigning for the right to vote.
  • 1913:Emily Wilding Davison throws herself under the King's horse at the Epsom Derby and is killed.
  • 1918: Representation of the people bill, doubles the electorate, giving the parliamentary vote to about six million women.
  • 1919:Nancy Astor becomes the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons.
  • 1928:Women given the vote at the age of 21 - the same as men.
  • 1929:Margaret Bondfield becomes the first women cabinet minister.
  • 1931:Family Planning Association formed.
  • 1945:By the end of the war there were 460,000 women in the military and over 6.5 million in civilian war work.
  • 1967:Abortion Act introduced.
  • 1970:The first British conference of the Women's Liberation Movement in Oxford resolved to press for employment legislation.
  • 1970:The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer and The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir published.
  • 1972:Cosmopolitan magazine launched in Britain.
  • 1973: Carmen Calil forms the first feminist publishing house, Virago.
  • 1975:The Equal Pay Act and Sex Discrimination Act come into effect and equal opportunities commission established.
  • 1983: Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value Amendment for the Equal Pay Act.
  • 1986: Scottish law lords ruled for the first time that sexual harassment is sex discrimination that can be challenged under the law.
  • 1994: Trade Union reform and Employment Rights Act guarantees every working woman the right to maternity leave for the first time.
  • 1997:120 women win seats in the general election.
  • 2001: Government introduces bill to improve women's political representation.
  • 2003: Gender pay gap still at 19%.
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