Equality – Page 3 – Citizens Project

Dorothy Evans and the Equal Citizenship (Blanket) Bill, c. 1943

‘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

The ideological divide in interwar Feminism

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