Fighting for your rights

  This text is about the fight of women to have equal rights as men. This women were called suffragettes. They protested on the streets, interrumped political meetings and smashed windows. Often they went to prison, but they still protested by refusing to eat.

  With the First World War, women had to work because there weren't so many men. This hasn't been ignored by the Parliament. The women over the age of thirty were allowed to vote. Ten years ago, women over eighteen years could vote. It was in 1928. In New Zealand, women had voted since 1893. Spanish women had to wait three years to have the right to vote. Finally, in 1931, spanish women had the right to vote.