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On the frontline with the British feminists trying to close the gap between rights and reality
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Standing at the feet of the early 20th century feminist Millicent Fawcett -- the only woman to be honored with a statue in the UK's Parliament Square -- I held the microphone up as high as I could to capture the impassioned words of her present-day successors.
"Did women get the vote by waiting for it to be granted to them?" activist Steph Pike bellowed into a loudspeaker. "No! they fought for it," she said.More Related News