What's covered
Key facts
The suffragettes adopted the slogan "Deeds, not words" to summarise their tactics.
The 1979 general election produced Britain's first female Prime Minister (Margaret Thatcher).
Emily Davison died in 1913 after stepping in front of the King's horse at the Epsom Derby.
The 1968 Ford Dagenham machinists' strike helped push the Equal Pay Act through Parliament.
The Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act 1928 gave all British women aged 21 and over the vote on the same terms as men.
The Equal Pay Act 1970 required equal pay for men and women doing the same work.
Some British women first won the right to vote in 1918.
The Equal Pay Act became law in 1970.
Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1903.
The Equal Pay Act required equal pay for equal work, regardless of sex.
Sample questions
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What slogan did the suffragettes adopt to summarise their tactics?
- •Bread or blood
- ✓Deeds, not words
- •Liberty or death
- •Votes for all
What roles did women take on during WW1 that had been male-only?
- •Leading regiments straight into Western Front combat
- ✓Munitions work, agriculture and public transport
- •Replacing every male MP currently in Parliament
- •Sailing all cargo ships across the Atlantic ocean
What did the 1918 Representation of the People Act grant?
- •Votes only to women whose husbands had died in WW1
- •Votes to all women over 18 immediately
- ✓Votes to women over 30 with property qualifications
- •Voting rights to all British colonies in Africa
What 1970 Act required equal pay for men and women doing the same work?
- •Employment Rights Act
- ✓Equal Pay Act
- •Sex Discrimination Act
- •Women's Equality Act
Who were the suffragettes?
- ✓Women campaigning for the right to vote, often using direct action
- •Women lawyers protesting their exclusion from the legal profession
- •Women teachers campaigning for paid maternity leave for the first time
- •Women trade unionists demanding equal pay in factory employment
What did the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act prohibit?
- •All separate sports competitions for men and women
- ✓Discrimination on grounds of sex in jobs and education
- •Female employment in scientific professions
- •Male leadership of British political parties
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