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CHAPTER LXXIII. | |
GREAT BRITAIN. | |
Efforts for Parliamentary Franchise | 1012-1037 |
Household suffrage for men proves a disadvantage to women — Primrose League and Liberal Federation — Women in politics — Vote on Suffrage Bill in 1886 — Nineteenth Century and Fortnightly Review open their columns to a discussion — Parliamentary tactics in 1891 to defeat the Bill Vote in 1892 shows opposing majority of only 17 out of 367 Great efforts of women in 1895-6 Petition of 257,796 presented — In 1897 the Bill passes second reading by majority of 71 — Kept from a vote since then by shrewd management — Its friends and its enemies — Franchise given to women in Ireland — Efforts of wage-earning women — Death of Queen Victoria. | |
Laws Specially Affecting Women | 1021 |
Guardianship of children, property rights of wives, etc. | |
Laws Relating to Local Government | 1022 |
Municipal Franchise for women of England, Scotland and Ireland — Women on school boards, county councils, poor-law boards, etc. — Deprived of seats in borough councils. | |
Women in Public Work | 1023 |
On Royal Commissions, as factory, school and sanitary inspectors. | |
Steps in Education | 1024 |
Admission to Universities and opening of Woman's Colleges. | |
The Isle of Man | 1025 |
Full Suffrage granted to women. | |
New Zealand | 1025 |
Steps for the Parliamentary Franchise — Granted in 1893 — Statistics of woman's vote. | |
South Australia | 1027 |
As above — Granted in 1894. | |
West Australia | 1029 |
As above — Granted in 1899. | |
New South Wales | 1029 |
As above — Granted in 1902. | |
Victoria | 1031 |
Efforts for Parliamentary Franchise. | |
Queensland | 1032 |
As above. | |
Tasmania | 1033 |
As above. | |
South African and Other Colonies | 1033 |