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The Representation of the People Act granted women over 30 the right to vote, as long as they were married to or a member of Local Government Register. It also extended menâs suffrage to the right for all men to vote over the age of 21, and abolished most property qualifications for men. Women were granted suffrage equal to men in 1928 under the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise Act) 1928. The age for women to vote was lowered to 21, and property qualifications reduced to the same as men, at this point barely notable.
The National Union of Women's Suffrage [Suffrage: The right to vote in political elections. ] Societies-the Suffragists [Suffragists: a member of the NUWSS who wished to obtain the vote through peaceful means-led by Millicent Fawcett ] - was formed in 1897 and led by Millicent Fawcett.uring the war, women served the nation and did men's work in many ways. When they were given the vote in 1918, almost every person who supported the motion in Parliament said that they deserved it because of their conduct during the war-they had proved that they could go to war' with the men.