Has Equality in the UK Changed Over the Last 100 years? - By Helena Mogg
In the last 100 years for the first time in the UK the Queen spoke on national television, free healthcare became readily available and widespread food shortages became a thing of the past. But has Britain progressed as much with equality and its treatment of women and ethnic minorities?
For starters, predating 1928 not all women could vote on the same terms as men. Although in 1918 women who were over the age of 30 and owned property could vote, with the Representation of People Act, they still didn’t get equal rights to the laws men had when qualifying for voting rights. The same Representation of People Act gave all men over 21 the right to vote regardless of what property they owned. It wasn’t until 1928 when the Equal Franchise Act was established that women got the same rights as men and were allowed to vote over the age of 21 with no property qualifications.