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"This is our first task"

Deep rooted prejudice
Votes for women

Tags: Activist, ACTIVITIES, British, British suffragette, Drawing, Flowers, Hat, INTERNATIONAL, Labor, NATIONALITY, Prejudice, PRO-SUFFRAGE, shovel, Votes for Women, Women's Social and Political Union, Working woman, WSPU

GOVERNOR HUGHES' VETOES
The Real Hughes and Woman's Rights

"ALBANY, NEW YORK, May 29, 1907.
"I return herewith without my approval Senate Bill No. 1212.
"The motive of the present bill is to compel equal pay for men and women holding the same…

Tags: Albany, American, Charles E. Hughes, CLASS, Education, Equal pay, HISTORICAL FIGURES, HISTORY/GOVERNMENT, Labor, Man, New York State, PRO-SUFFRAGE, States of the Union, STATESMEN/STATESWOMEN, Woman, Women's rights, Working class, Working man, Working woman

I AM NEUTRAL – maid and mistress

[Image: Part of a series of postcards, labeled No. 2178, 10 designs, "Neutral" Comic.

Cartoon illustration of a man hiding in a closet while two women argue in the kitchen. One woman says "I'm me own boss, see!" and the other says "You must do as…

Tags: AMBIGUOUS-SUFFRAGE, Angry, Angry woman, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, CLASS, Cooking, EMOTIONS, HOUSEHOLD, Housework, Husband, Kitchen, Man, MARRIAGE, Middle class, PRIVATE, Wife, Woman, Working class, Working woman

I Do Not Have All the Rights I Want

[Image: A block of text listing many of the rights sought by the Suffrage Movement. The first word, "I," is an ornately decorated dropcap. The postcard reads: "I do not have all the rights I want. I want the right to close the mines and mills against…

Insurance Monday

INSURANCE MONDAY

Chorus of Housewives: "We never employ extra help on MONDAY"

TAX COLLECTOR

[Image: stylised image of a group of domestic employees outside two houses where the housewives are denying they employ 'extra help' to a 'TAX…

Tags: British, CLASS, Domestic servant, Hat, HOUSEHOLD, Man, Middle class, PRIVATE, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, Suffrage Atelier, Taxation, Wife, Woman, Working class, Working man, Working woman

Is This Right?

IS THIS RIGHT?

FRANCHISE

THE OPEN MARKET

Woman. Why can't I have an umbrella too?
Voter. You can't. You ought to stop at home.
Woman. Stop at home indeed! I have my Living to earn.

Tags: Basket, British, Capitalism, CLASS, FASHION, Inequality, Labor, Man, Market, Middle class, PRO-SUFFRAGE, PUBLIC, SYMBOLISM, Umbrella, Woman, Working class, Working woman