World War I was a turning-point in many countries for the women's movement. During the war, women had filled the places of the men who had gone off to fight, working in industries such as munitions factories, on farms as labourers, and in the mines. After the end of the war, equal voting rights were introduced in Canada (1918), Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany and Poland (1919), and in 1920 in Hungary and the USA. The right to vote was extented to all women over the age of 21 in 1928. Emmeline Pankhurst, founder of the WSPU, died a month after British women gained equal voting rights.
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The suffragettes engaged in many different forms of protest, from iterrupting public meetings by shouting slogans to chaining themselves to railing outside the residence of the British prime minister.
resources: Tell me why (Chancellor Press)
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