... as strong and the ruler. It was a strongly male dominated society. However women were not going to stand for this much longer and in the twentieth century began to fight for equal rights hence the uprising of the feminist´s movement. This was to be the start of a long hard upward struggle. During the twentieth century, there has been a gradual improvement in the status of women in Britain. At the beginning of the century the suffragette movement won the right for women to vote in parliamentary elections. By nineteen nineteen, all women over thirty could vote, this was lowered to twenty-one in nineteen twenty-eight. For the first time this put women equal to men in relation to voting rights. The first step towards equality. Women today have equal rights with men to education. It is now illegal to discriminate against either sex by denying them access to certain subjects and courses ...

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