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History of women in the United Kingdom Cover of WSPU's The Suffragette, 25 April 1913 Gender Inequality Index Value 0.098 (2021) Rank 27th out of 191 Global Gender Gap Index Value 0.775 (2021) Rank 23rd Part of a series on Women in society Society Women's history (legal rights) Woman Animal advocacy Business Female entrepreneurs Gender representation on corporate boards of directors Diversity ...
1882: The Married Women's Property Act 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c.75) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom that significantly altered English law regarding the property rights of married women, which besides other matters allowed married women to own and control property in their own right. The Act applied in England (and Wales) and ...
The English and French had been constantly at war over hereditary sovereignty in France; the Hundred Years' War (1337–1453) escalated, and the conflict between the two nations reached its peak in an intermittent series of belligerent phases, with each phase usually ending with a temporary truce lasting for a few years.
3/5 Laura Knight and Artemisia Gentileschi feature among a vast array of little-known female artists in this expansive survey at Tate Britain, but some of the work on display only underlines the ...
The name "Britannia", symbolising Britain and British patriotism, has been adopted for a variety of purposes, including: Britannia silver, a high-grade alloy of silver introduced in Britain in 1697. Britannia coins, a series of British gold bullion coins issued since 1987, which have nominal values of 100, 50, 25, and 10 pounds.
The four main concerns addressed were equal pay between genders, providing fair education and job opportunities for women, coverage of abortion and contraception, and availability of 24-hour nurseries – free of charge. [2] From there on, a chain reaction of reformation within the United Kingdom emerged.
The supersonic commercial aircraft was developed jointly by the United Kingdom and France. The Concorde supersonic commercial aircraft was developed under an international treaty between the UK and France in 1962, and commenced flying in 1969. It was a technological success but a financial disaster and was closed down after a runway crash in ...
UK pop star moved to New York, where she lives with her husband, ‘Stranger Things’ star David Harbour, and her two children, in 2020 Lily Allen on the difference between British and American ...