A suffragette who dedicated her life to getting women the vote is to become the first woman honoured with a statue in London's Parliament Square, the UK's political centre.
The statue of suffragist Millicent Fawcett — one of the leading figures in the campaign for women's voting rights in the UK — will stand alongside statues of Sir Winston Churchill and Nelson Mandela outside the Houses of Parliament. All 11 statues in the square are currently of men, making Fawcett the first woman to be honoured in this way.
Fawcett led the peaceful campaign for women's suffrage for 62 years, during which suffragettes fought for voting rights to be extended to women. February 2018 will mark 100 years since the Representation of the People Act 1918 was passed, which granted women over the age of 30 in the UK the right to vote. Full equality at the ballot box wasn't achieved until a decade later, one year before Fawcett’s death. Read more...
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