Suffragettes No More - The Long Struggle for Women's Equality

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"Suffragette" was the label used by those who were the enemies of women's rights. They used the word "suffragette" to belittle those who worked for civil rights and equality.

Suffragettes No More - The Long Struggle for Women's Equality

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Honoring women's history in March each year is a bad joke as long as those who struggled for women's equality are called ''suffragettes.''

 

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'Women's right to vote mattered, because the right to vote was - and still is - seen as the means to make all other rights possible. Suffragists wanted more than just ticking a ballot. Woman suffragists wanted women to have the right to attend school, to own property, to have a say in how their children were treated and to have a right to the integrity of their bodies.

Along the way, the suffragists won many battles; however, in a gross miscarriage of justice, the enemies of women's equality seem to have won the naming rights. '