...suggestion, announced publicly: "That the National Union while maintaining its demand for the vote for women on the same terms as it is or may be granted to men would welcome any removal of the sex disability as an instalment of justice."8 Two or three months...

...marriage and other social evils. 4. To secure for women the vote for municipal and legislative councils on the same terms as it is or may be granted to men. 5. To secure adequate representation of women in Talukas and Local Boards, Legislative Councils and...

...was far more compelling than the suffragist formula, To extend the parliamentary franchise to women on the same terms as it is or may be granted to men'. Its tactics were far more dynamic, and they were greeted by hysterical opposition from the press and...

...suffrage organizations. The object of the League was 'to obtain the Parliamentary Franchise for women on the same terms as it is, or may be granted to men. Its methods are the methods proper to writers - the use of the pen.' The WWSL was a professional organization,...

...elderly women and spinsters. The 'Conciliation Bill' did not fulfill the suffragists' demand for the vote on the same terms as it is or may be granted to men, but, because it had been carefully crafted so as neither to offend Liberal sensitivities to increasing...

...end of the debate the motion, 'that the immediate granting of the Parliamentary franchise to women on the same terms as it is or may be granted to men is the speediest and most practical way to real democracy', was carried by 171 votes in favour to 139...

...position she held until 1919.4 The aim of the NUWSS was to obtain the parliamentary vote for women 'on the same terms as it is, or may be granted to men', a goal that was also adopted by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). founded in 1903 by Emmeline...

...President of the NUWSS from 1897 to 1919. She concentrated on the single aim, to win parliamentary suffrage on the same terms 'as it is, or may be granted to men'. She lived just long enough to see her hopes fulfilled in 1928, dying the following year. The NUWSS...

...countries (1) 'to band together Catholics of both sexes in order to secure for women the parliamentary vote on the same terms as it is, or may be, granted to men': and (2) 'to secure the political, social and economic equality between men and women and to further...

...of women from the exercise of the suffrage was 'unjust in principle and inexpedient in practice ... the right of voting should be granted to them on the same conditions as those which are or may be granted to men'. 19 8 The meeting was judged by Lydia Becker...