6. Emmeline Pankurst: Reshaping Women To Make Decisions Like Men
Emmeline Pankhurst was perhaps one of the most important women in Britain’s women’s suffrage movement that demanded that women get the right to vote. She chose her spouse based on this as well, and she and her sisters campaigned hard for female suffrage. In 1903 she founded the Women Social and Political Union, a non-partisan organization that was dedicated to helping women gain the rights to vote, unequivocally.
However, this organization was infamous for its violence and many a time its members engaged in violent and physical altercations with the authorities and were arrested on multiple occasions. When asked as to why they resorted to violence as means to an end, Emmeline said, “We are here not because we are lawbreakers; we are here in our efforts to become lawmakers!”
Emmeline was one dangerous lady, for she shaped the future of what women are today, equal to men in their constitutional rights, misogynists and male chauvinists be damned!
Discussion about this post