bs in industries where men were predominant. Emmeline Pankhurst went through Trade Unions to let women work in the place of the men. (Uglow, Jennifer S., 357-360) Millicent Fawcett gave a speech to the NUWSS at the beginning of the war. She said “ Women your country needs you…Let us show ourselves worthy of citizenship, whether our claim to it be recognized or not.” (“Millicent Fawcett”, NP)January of 1917, the House of Commons began to discuss granting women the vote in parliamentary elections. On March 28,1917 the House of Commons voted 341 to 62 for the Qualifications of Women Act. This allowed women over the age of 30 who were householders, occupiers of property with an annual rent of 5-pounds or graduates of British Universities. In February of 1918 the House of Lords passed the act also. (“Qualification of Women Act”, NP)“Freedom of all human creatures are essential to the fulldevelopment of human life on earth. We shall have to Labour, not merely for a larger freedom for ourselves, but For every subject race and class, and for all suppressed Individuals.” (Olive Schreiner, 1918) This was the lesson the John Stuart Mill wanted to teach to everyone.In 1928 the Reform Act of 1928 was passed. This set identical voting qualifications for men and women. So women and men of 21 years of age could vote. (“Reform Bills”, Encarta 2000, NP) In 1929 British Trade Union leader Margaret G. Bondfield became the 1st women cabinet member in British history, and in 1979 Margaret Thatcher became 1st women Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Victory had finally been won after a century of fighting, their dreams has come true. (Banner, Lois W., 2)“But when an impossible dream comes true, we must go on to another. The true unity of men and women is one such dream. The end of war, of famine- they are all impossible dreams, but the dreams must be dreamed until it takes a spiritua...
