On 4 June 1913, a woman called Emily Davison① went to a horse race, threw herself under the king's horse and later died from her injuries. A1 which said "Votes for women" was found in her pocket. All her life, Emily had been fighting for women's rights. She was a suffragette, part of a group of women who started working together in 1903 to 2 equal rights for women. When Emily was young, she and all the other women in the UK were not allowed to vote, go to university or work in the same jobs as men. In the event of a divorce②, the husband took the children. In poor villages, wives were 3 sold in the market.
The suffragettes wanted to 4 all this. More than a thousand were arrested③, but they did not stop. They went on hunger strike in prison to fight against the unfair treatment. In 1928, women in the UK finally got the right to vote and then more and more women started to go to university and get jobs. In 1952, female teachers were given the right to earn the same money as male teachers. The situation has been 5 since the suffragettes' time but many people say that men and women are still not equal in society.6 , now in the UK, men earn 20 per cent more than women for the same work. If you are a male manager, your chance of being promoted④ is 40 per cent higher than a female manager's. That's why many people are still fighting for equal rights for women in the UK.
① Emily Davison艾米莉·戴维森，妇女参政论者。1913年6月，她前往赛马场为女性争取选举权，撞倒在英王乔治五世的赛马马蹄下身亡。戴维森的去世引起巨大轰动, 被认为是英国女性政治平权运动的转折点。 ② divorce n. 离婚 ③ arrest v. 逮捕 ④ promote v. 晋升 |
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