Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Suffragettes

This is a movie about the Suffragette movement in England. It is inspired by true events. A woman had to become a martyr so that women could have a vote. Several women had to struggle for this right to become universal.
There are still countries where women cannot vote.
New Zealand was the first country to let women vote. This was back in 1893. In Portugal it was in 1931, but it had a lot of restrictions: only single women, older than 31 years old or emancipated., if married they needed consent from their husbands. Only in 1968 the right for women to vote was universal.
It's a movie that is worth watching.


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