‘It would be a great saving of effort to work for one Blanket Bill remedying all the remaining injustices, designed to abolish sex discrimination in law and to establish and maintain equality before the law for all citizens without distinctions based on sex.’ [1] -Dorothy Evans Rather than slowly chipping away at individual pieces of … Read more
Since its opening in 1886, Royal Holloway College has had many student-led societies for sport, politics and other interests. In the 1920s, the College had an active Society for Equal Citizenship, which was a feminist group affiliated with the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship (NUSEC). The organisation formerly known as the National Union … Read more
Following the 1918 Representation of the People Act the organisation formerly known as the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) transformed into the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship (NUSEC). Despite their main object ‘to secure a real equality of liberties, status and opportunities between men and women’ there was tension and disagreement … Read more
Following the passing of the Representation of the People Act in 1918, which enfranchised some women over 30, the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), the umbrella organisation for the law-abiding ‘suffragists’, evolved into the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship (NUSEC). Like the NUWSS, the re-branded NUSEC drew together and represented smaller … Read more
