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=== Great Britain ===
{{Further|Women's Social and Political Union}}
The British political activist, [[Emmeline Pankhurst]], founded the [[Women's Social and Political Union]] (WSPU) on October 10, 1903.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |author=June Purvis |editor1=John Merriman |editor2=Jay Winter |date=2006 |title=Europe 1789-1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire |volume=4 |chapter=Pankhurst, Emmeline, Christabel, and Sylvia |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3446900622/GVRL?u=lincclin_pbcc&sid=GVR%20L&xid=9846016b |access-date=2020-12-13 |via=link.gale.com |language=en}}</ref> The organization was aimed towards fighting for women's right to a parliamentary vote, which only men were granted at the time.<ref>{{Citation |last=Purvis |first=June |title=Emmeline Pankhurst in the Aftermath of Suffrage, 1918–1928 |date=2013 |work=The Aftermath of Suffrage: Women, Gender, and Politics in Britain, 1918–1945 |pages=19–36 |editor-last=Gottlieb |editor-first=Julie V. |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |place=London |doi=10.1057/9781137333001_2 |isbn=978-1-137-33300-1 |editor2-last=Toye |editor2-first=Richard |language=en}}</ref> Emmeline was known for being a powerful orator, who led many women to rebel through militant forms until the outbreak of [[World War I]] in 1914.<ref name=":3" />