I stumbled across this article recently....
A century ago, after years of campaigning, women over the age of 30 who owned property were given the right to vote in the UK.
But for many thousands of women, it was not a moment of celebration.
Known as the anti-suffrage movement, these women had been working to oppose the suffragettes.
They believed women didn't have the capacity to understand politics, and portrayed the suffragettes as a group of "ugly" women and "spinsters".
a) totally bonkers that only women over the age of 30 or over 21 if they owned property initially were given the right to vote in 1918 - women didn't get a fully equal right to vote until 1928!!
b) there were quite a large number of women who actively opposed the suffragettes cause and wanted to prevent women getting the vote.
We seem to have a similar situation today. Some women are happy with their lot have little comprehension of the issues and have absolutely no regard for the feelings of many other women, those who have identified (through logic and research) that removing our words will inevitably harm us and removing our single sex spaces and facilities and undermining safeguarding for children will also be harmful. We are already seeing significant evidence of harm.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42704341