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Finnish government granted women right to vote

Emmeline Pankhurst found Women's Social and Political Union

British grant women over 30 right to vote

USA grant women right to vote

The Married Women’s Property Act allows married women to own their own property

1,400 women at Bryant & May go on strike in protest of the poor wages and dangerous conditions in the matchstick factory.

Marie Curie wins Noble Prize for physics

Marie Curie wins Noble Prize in Chemistry

Clementina Black, Secretary of the Women’s Trade Union League, secures the first successful equal pay resolution at Trades Union Congress

Under the Qualification of Women Act, women can be elected onto borough and county councils and can also be elected mayor.

The Sex Discrimination Removal Act allows women access to the legal profession and accountancy in England

New time period

many activists started to focus on suffrage

Florence NIghtingale works as nurse in Crimean War

Maria Montessori works on establishing educational system