Jessie Fergusson
Jessie Fergusson was a Scottish suffragette. She played an active role in the rent strike and was the secretary of the Glasgow branch of Workers' Socialist Federation, The Worker’s Suffrage Federation when it first was established. Activism Fergusson was one of the leaders behind the Red Clydeside#Rent strikes, rent strike in Glasgow in 1915. Before the strike, Glasgow Women's Housing Association had been formed, which Fergusson was an active part of. The strike was efficient. It resulted in the Rent Restriction Act, which said that the rent could not be increased from the 1914 levels unless the standard of the property was increased. References Scottish suffragettes 20th-century Scottish women Year of birth missing Year of death missing British housing rights activists {{Feminism-activist-stub ...
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Suffragette
A suffragette was a member of an activist women's organisation in the early 20th century who, under the banner "Votes for Women", fought for the right to vote in public elections in the United Kingdom. The term refers in particular to members of the British Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), a women-only movement founded in 1903 by Emmeline Pankhurst, which engaged in direct action and civil disobedience. In 1906, a reporter writing in the ''Daily Mail'' coined the term ''suffragette'' for the WSPU, derived from suffragist (any person advocating for voting rights), in order to belittle the women advocating women's suffrage. The militants embraced the new name, even adopting it for use as the title of the newspaper published by the WSPU. Women had won the right to vote in several countries by the end of the 19th century; in 1893, New Zealand became the first self-governing country to grant the vote to all women over the age of 21. When by 1903 women in Britain had ...
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