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| Girl Guiding established. |
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| Women in employment 1914-1918 |
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| Female war workers that left their jobs in 1918 after victory was achieved. |
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| The Representation of the People Acts |
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| Vote extended to women 1918 and then also in 1928 to women 21-29 |
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| First female police officer |
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| First Female MP elected in 1918, however as a member of Sinn Fein, she never took her seat. |
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| First female member of the Cabinet, as Minister for Labour in the 1929 Labour government. |
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| Female civil servants in 1921 |
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| Fertility rate per woman in the 1920s |
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| Allowed women to divorce men in 1923 |
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| Sex Disqualification Removal Act |
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| Passed in 1929, giving women more job oppurtunities. |
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