This is the story of one group of working women who joined the fight in London, 1912. For decades women had peacefully campaigned for equality and the right to vote. “Women do not have the calm temperament or the balance of mind to exercise judgement and in political affairs. If we allow women to vote, it will be the loss of social structure. Women are well represented by their fathers, brothers, husbands. Once the vote was given, it will be impossible to stop with this, women will then demand the right of becoming judges. ” “For fifty years, we have live us peacefully to secure the vote for women, we have been ridiculed, battered, and ignored. Now we have realized that deed and sacrifice must be the order of the day . We are fighting for a time in which every little girl bought into the world will have an equal chance with her brothers.Never underestimate the power we women have to define our own destinies. We do not want to be law-breakers, we want to be law-makers. Be militant, each of you in your own way. Those of you who can break windows, break them. Those of you who can further attack the secret property, do so. We break window, we burn things, because war's the only language men listen to. We have been less with no alternative but to the fight. I would rather be a rebel than a slave. There's another way of living this life. We're worth no more, no less than the men." Emily Wilding Davison's death was reported across the world. It drew global attention to the fight for women's right. It was a fight that led to the imprisonment of more than a thousand British women. In 1918 the vote was given to certain women aged over 30.In 1925 the law recognised a mother's rights over her children. In 1928 women achieved the same voting rights as men.
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