After a short campaign in which she won the election with 51.9% of the vote she entered the House of Commons on December 1, 1919, as a Unionist or Tory Member of Parliament.
Anthony and fourteen other women successfully cast their votes despite it being illegal under federal law.
As she was accompanied through the Members’ Lobby, Travers Symons broke away from her escort and burst into the chamber where MPs were debating a bill regarding issues related to children.
The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing all American women the right to vote.
The first women’s rights convention in the United States began in Seneca Falls, New York.
The majority of commentators hold the view that Davison did not intend to martyr herself, but rather wished to attach a ‘Votes For Women’ scarf to the horse as a way to gain publicity for the movement.
Every New Zealand woman over the age of 21 was able to vote in the world’s first general election in a self-governing colony.
Frustrated by the lack of progress made by the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies from whom the group had split, the WSPU soon became known for its militant and sometimes violent actions under the motto ‘Deeds, not words’.
Ross later achieved another ‘first’ in 1933 when she was appointed Director of the U.S. Mint by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
On the 4th June 1913, suffragette Emily Wilding Davison was hit by King George V’s racehorse at the Epsom Derby after she stepped onto the track.
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