As long as there’s been inequality,women have protested – from the suffragettes through to protesters on the red carpet of the film SuffragetteFor as long as the world has been unequal and governments have allowed inequality to flourish, women have protested. We’ve marched, and starved,petitioned, written letters, or devised legislation and even gone entertainingly off-piste to raise awareness and register our rage. Just over a century ago,the campaign for women’s votes was reaching its radical peak, with women disrupting public meetings, or chaining themselves to railings and destroying artwork and public property. final week,at the premiere of the film Suffragette, feminist campaigners demonstrated on the red carpet for women’s true to refuge provision. Women’s direct action and protest has changed the world – like the strikes by machinists at Ford’s plant in Dagenham in 1968, and which led to the landmark 1970 Equal Pay Act. Here are some of the best examples in a century of campaigning.
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Source: theguardian.com