As in all other countries, women haven't always had the right to vote in the UK, but the

United Kingdom was one of the first countries, which took measures to grant the right to
them. Undoubtedly, there were many people who campaigned extremely hard to
change this. Two major groups in particular are well known for leading the way in the
fight to get votes for women - the Suffragists and the Suffragettes. As the leader of
the Suffragettes, Emmeline Pankhurst led an army of women onto the streets of Britain
as. Women’s Sunday, the first ‘monster meeting’ to be held by the Women’s Social and
Political Union, headed by Emmeline Pankhurst, brought Suffragettes into London from all
over the country in June 1908. They marched in seven different processions through central
London to a rally in Hyde Park.
Right after the meeting Emmeline and her daughter were arrested.

Her 'Freedom or Death' speech in 1913, considered her most famous, happened in
Hartford on a fundraising tour of the United States.

In her speech, she explained why the movement had turned to more aggressive and
violent means to achieve its goal - to grant women the right to vote. “It is about eight
years since the word militant was first used to describe what we were doing. It
was not militant at all, except that it provoked militancy on the part of those who
were opposed to it. When women asked questions in political meetings and failed
to get answers, they were not doing anything militant. “

As Women’s Suffrage Movement was a result of political discrimination

against women (who did not have voting rights), the speaker also
discusses gender discrimination. Firstly, she exemplifies how women were
excluded from the political process in Britain: “No man was ever put out of a
public meeting for asking a question until Votes for Women came onto the
political horizon.

"Put them in prison," they said, "that will stop it." But it didn't stop it at all:
instead of the women giving it up, more women did it, and more and more and
more women did it until there were 300 women at a time, who had not broken a
single law, only "made a nuisance of themselves" as the politicians say.

Pankherst speech had some really sarcastic passages against men “so you see in
the woman's civil war the dear men of my country are discovering it is absolutely
impossible to deal with it: you cannot locate it, and you cannot stop it”

Metafores and comparissons are one of the most import parts of her speech: for
example, comparing

Women’s right to vote in the U.K., granted by the 1918 Act, also enabled
them to run for political office for the first time. A century later, as TIME
recently reported, a record number of women are currently running for
office in the U.S.
Both the women’s suffrage movement and the current #MeToo and Time’s
Up movements have taken on global dimensions.
I’d love to finish my presentation with a quote from “Freedom or Death”, which, I think< is still very
applicable to modern life: “We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are
here in our efforts to become law-makers.”