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VOTE 100 - EQUALITY: WHERE WE WERE, WHERE

​ WE ARE, WHERE WE'RE GOING

#press for progress

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​VOTE100 - GET INVOLVED


LOCAL EVENTS:




Brace yourselves...
10 reasons why men opposed votes for women By Francesca Gillett BBC News
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Key 2018 anniversaries:

6th February 1918 Representation of the People Act (100 years) -
All men over 21 and some women over 30 were granted the vote for the first time

21st November 1918 Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act (100 years) -
Gave women over 21 the right to stand for election as an MP. 1918 General Election (100 years)
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General Election 14 December 1918 (100 years) -
Women over 30 (and all men over 21) vote in a General Election for the first time

1928 Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act (90 years) -
Gave women electoral equality with men

1958 Life Peerages Act (60 years) -
​Female and male life peers could be members of the Lords

Suffragettes in Trousers

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Parliamentary Friends of Women's Suffrage, 1860-1900
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Militancy and Conciliation 1900-1912
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George Lansbury: A Suffragist By-Eleciton
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Frederick Pethick Lawrence: From Rebel to Parliamentarian
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'Men from the North': The Northern Men’s Federation for Women’s Suffrage, 1913–1918
Download leaflet on 'Suffragettes in Trousers'

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Meet the disabled suffragettes who fought for the vote

WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT
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The exhibition ‘Women in Parliament’ is now open on the first floor of Portcullis House. It chronicles more than a hundred years of women’s influence on Parliament, as campaigners, voters and parliamentarians. Covering the period 1784 to 2014 it includes portraits, cartoons, photographs and prints showing how women influenced and participated in the business of Parliament.

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6th FEBRUARY 2018: A CENTURY SINCE SOME WOMEN FIRST GOT THE RIGHT TO VOTE
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To mark that important anniversary Radio 4 has been asking experts to come up with their suggestions for the most influential British woman of the century in the fields of music, engineering and technology, art and architecture, maths and science, sport, business and workplace, politics and public life, law and human right, fashion and design, and literature

​HEAR THE PODCASTS




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"BBC Radio 3 announces new choral commission by Pankhurst relatives

BBC Radio 3 announces a brand new choral commission to mark the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in the UK. The Pankhurst Anthem is a choral work with music by composer Lucy Pankhurst and text by women’s rights activist and writer Helen Pankhurst based on words by her great-grandmother Emmeline.
Written to be performed in two parts, Echoes of Emmeline is followed by Anthem, which features an uplifting melody designed to be easily learnt, sung by any number of voices and especially composed with the view to encouraging music-lovers across the UK to perform the piece themselves to mark the anniversary year together.
The BBC Singers conducted by Hilary Campbell will perform The Pankhurst Anthem in an online premiere available to view on the BBC Radio 3 website from the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage on Tuesday 6 February..." read more
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IWD march and rally in Reading
Walk With Women 

8th March 2018 

facebook.com/walkwithwomenReading 
local activists will speak on the importance of solidarity in the UK and internationally with the struggles women face, with personal accounts from DPAC, Trans activist, Palestinian rights activist from Jewish voices for Labour, a trade unionist, and others to be confirmed. 
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        Your Story, Our History 2018
​To mark 100 years since some women gained the right to vote, new #YourStoryOurHistory films will be released on 6 February, exploring how the laws passed by Parliament have changed the lives of women.
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Tobi’s story explores the Representation of the People Act 1918. Tobi shares her first voting experience and explores the impact of women’s franchise on women from all walks of life. 
Sarian’s story looks at the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003. Born in Sierra Leone, she talks about how the Act protects her and her children from FGM since moving to the UK. 
Courtenay & Therese's story looks at the impact on women of the act that created the National Health Service, and the 1967 Abortion Act.
The Your Story, Our History films are part of a series which explore how Parliament has impacted on people’s lives. You can also view our series on race relations and the LGBTQ+ community.
Watch Your Story, Our History films


FEATURING LOCAL WOMEN
PROFILE:





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EMAIL TO FEATURE A LOCAL WOMAN YOU FEEL MAKES OR HAS MADE A NOTABLE OR LASTING CONTRIBUTION TO OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY

GUEST SPEAKERS AT MAIDENHEAD CLP MONTHLY MEETING:

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​Anneliese Dodd
Labour MP
Oxford East

Guest speaker at Maidenhead CLP meeting
May 24th 2018
8pm
Friends Meeting House
West Street


WHERE WE ARE:


STREET STALLS IN MAIDENHEAD:

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GENDER PAY GAP STREET STALL
DATE: tbc
TIME: 10am to 12md 
​LOCATION: outside Wilkos, High Street, Maidenhead
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  Gender pay gap:
Gender pay gap regulations (GPGR) enforced by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).  Private and voluntary sector employers with 250 or more employees must report the required pay gap information annually, this year it will be by 4th April 2018. Public sector employers in England must publish the required information by 30 March 2018.

'Equal pay day': 
​​highlights when a woman on an average wage stops being paid relative to their male counterparts which last year was on Nov 10th, although in some areas it is in September such as in Maidenhead last year!  In Windsor and Maidenhead men earned £5.43 per hour more than women. The gender pay gap here is 27.9%. This is equivalent to women working unpaid from 20 September.  Nationally, if the mean average pay gap for full time workers of 14.1% closes at the rate it has over the last five years, it won't reach 0% until 2117.

Equality and Human Rights Commissions Gender    Pay Gap Regulations (GPGR) -
​guidance on  reporting requirements



Reporting Enforcement Plan for GPGR



WOMEN AND AUSTERITY STREET STALL
tbc :DATE
10am to 12md :TIME
outside Wilkos, High Street, Maidenhead :LOCATION

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​2 Women and Austerity:

Women lose more than men and black and Asian households lose more than white households. Taken together this sees the poorest Black and Asian women triply disadvantaged by income, gender and ethnicity


Huffington Post article:
women hit hardest by austerity

In 2010 
Teresa May warned of “real risks” saying that “women, ethnic minorities, disabled people and older people will be disproportionately hit by cuts”

Guardian:
Due to a toxic concoction of institutional racism and sexism, under austerity working class BME women are hit the hardest
Low-income black and Asian women are paying the highest price for austerity. By 2020 they will have lost nearly double the amount of money poor white men have

The research
Women's Budget Group and The Runnymede Trust

 
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WHERE WE ARE GOING:
what needs to be done to achieve gender parity?


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THE GUARDIAN:

Women's rights: 100 revolutionary years 
End domestic violence, vanquish trolls and defeat body shame: feminist fights for the next century.  One hundred years after suffrage, there is still so 
much to campaign for. Women including Jo Brand and Archie Panjabi set out the change they would like to see by 2118 – from unisex loos to challenging the dominance of male desire




​The Guardian: 

"The 1930s: ‘Women had the vote, but the old agitation went on’
              In 1928, Stanley Baldwin and his Conservative government had allowed all women to vote when they reached the age of 21 – the same age as for men. “The subjection of women, if there be such a thing, will not now depend on any creation of the law,” he said. “It will never again be possible to blame the sovereign state for any position of inequality. Women will have with us the fullest rights. The ground and justification for the old agitation is gone.”
        Women: latest research
  • Women Members of Parliament - Commons Briefing Paper
  • Women in the House of Commons - Commons Briefing Paper
  • Select Committees: Membership by gender - Commons Library Blog
  • Female MPs: Participation in previous parliaments - Commons Library Blog
  • Women in Public Life, the Professions and the Boardroom - Commons Briefing Paper
  • Women around the World: International Women's Day 2017 - Commons Briefing Paper
  • Women in Parliament and Government - Commons Briefing Paper
  • International Women's Day 2017 - Lords Briefing Paper
  • Women and the Economy - Commons Briefing Paper
  • All-women shortlists - Commons Briefing Paper
  • Women in the House of Lords - Lords Library Note
  • The Gender Pay Gap - Commons Briefing Paper
  • Women's Economic Empowerment - Lords Library Note