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This site is part of the "Women's Issues"
collection.
This site was selected for preservation by the British Library and is archived regularly. The publisher's site may provide more information.
The Fawcett Society is a leading and longstanding organisation campaigning for female equality. The Society began with the work of Millicent Fawcett, president of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, to win the vote for women, and then went on to be a leader in the campaigns that led to the 1970 Equal Pay Act and the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act. The Society's profile was raised in the 1980s, with the establishment, along with other organisations, of Women's Action Day. In 1989 the Society co-founded the Campaign Against Pornography. Due to financial difficulties, the Society and the Fawcett Library (now the Women's Library) separated in 1977. The current name was adopted in 1953. Source: Dango database of archives of non-governmental organisations at http://www.dango.bham.ac.uk/
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