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From this year onwards, women have gradually achieved success both politically and socially. However these achievements came by only after a period of women's protests, struggles and sufferings. After the 1870 Education Act, an increasing number of young women began to receive formal education and this at the same time produced an increasing number of ambitious women. Women began to feel that it was unjust to discriminate sex and it was unfair to give all the …

…physically abused by their husbands and they had no legal rights to protect themselves against domestic violence, and especially adultery, which was something that men had denied to be in existence in a legal marriage. Under these circumstances, many women were brought together to fight and challenge men's sexual rights over themselves, and at the same time, they became aware of the sexual injustices in society and the importance of equality and thus women's suffrage.