I'm reading 'Hidden from History' by Sheila Rowbotham at the moment. Came across this gem:
'The Women's Co-operative Guild had a strong tradition of defending the interests of the woman at home....When the executors of the Prince of Wales Fund decided not to give relief to unmarried mothers because the clergymen on the board thought it would outrage married women, the Women's Co-operative Guild sent an indignant deputation. Their representative....said later,
'I explained that I represented the Women's Co-operative Guild, an organisation 30,000 strong, chiefly composed of respectable married women, and that the Guild entirely repudiated the statement that married women would be resentful' (and) 'asked them to remember that every time a woman fell a man fell also.'
Happy International Women's Day everyone 