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    And 100 Years On GIRL POWER

    Apr 30, 2018 4 minutes
    Editorial by Sara Maitland Galloway, Scotland Photography: Jacques Demarthon, Daniel Leal Olivas

    2018 ought to be a big celebration year for women in the UK. One hundred years ago we won the right to vote. Fifty years ago the Women’s Liberation Movement began to emerge in Britain. It is, obviously, much harder to put a precise date on the second of these landmarks. We know to the day, probably to the precise time, when the law was passed allowing votes for women (or for some of them, to be precise - the Act simultaneously enfranchised all men previously excluded and property owning women over 30. More males than females were given the vote for the first time in 1918). The Act is a clear landmark victory, despite its now rather bizarre

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