Women and equality
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- Women and equality
- During the late 19th century women started to fight for equal rights
- 1882 Married women's property act: women could keep their property separate from their husbands
- 1892 Local government act: Women allowed to stand as councilors
- 1918 Representation of people act: Allowed women over 30 to vote in parliamentary elections (men over 21 could vote)
- 1928 Electoral reform act: equal voting rights and women could stand as MPs
- 1970 Equal pay act
- 1975 Sex discrimination act: illegal to discriminate in employment on grounds of gender or martial status
- Why attitudes have changed
- Two world wars: women had to take over jobs
- Other countries like New Zealand gave women equal political rights and this made it difficult for the UK to not also give these rights
- Success of women
- Work of the suffragette movement
- Social and industrial developments in the 1950s and 60s led to the need for more women to provide a second income
- UN declaration of human rights and development of the feminist movement
- Labour government of 1964-70 and 1974-79 were dedicated to the equal rights campaign and passed the equal pay act and sex discrimination act
- During the late 19th century women started to fight for equal rights
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