To a brief but moving ceremony last night in Christchurch Gardens, Westminster, where the Fawcett Society, in a ceremony organised by the South London Fawcett group, held its annual commemoration of the work of Millicent Fawcett, laying a wreath at the foot of the suffrage ceremony.
(The event has traditionally been held in Westminster Abbey, but the Chapel of St George is currently closed for repairs – we’ll be back there next year.)
Angela Mason, chair of the Fawcett Society (which is the direct and continuous descendent of Millicent’s National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies), spoke of how Millicent would have been astonished at the fight women were still having to wage for economic and political equality. She said that after such a long struggle, it is clear that it is no longer enough to keep asking for equality, in parliament and in boardrooms – quotas have to be applied.
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