Spotlight on women’s suffrage

One hundred years of women’s right to vote is to be marked in Perth.

In has now been over 100 years since women were granted the right to vote in 1918.

Women over the age of 30 were able to vote for the first time from 1918 however it would be a further 10 years later before this was reduced to all women over the age of 21.

Now, a panel discussion and a small exhibition will be held in Perth Museum and Art Gallery to discuss women’s suffrage and how politics impacts on today’s women.

The talk ‘100 years of the women’s vote in Britain: how far have we come?’ will take place on Friday, March 8 at 7pm.

Local authors, journalists and businesswomen will form the panel discussion, and it will be hosted by writer Daniel Gray.

After the panel discussion, a small exhibition of photos will be unveiled for the evening.

A spokesperson for Culture Perth and Kinross, the organisation behind Perth Museum and Art Gallery, said: “On February 6 1918, after 50 years of campaigning, some British women were finally granted the vote.

“One hundred years on, Culture Perth and Kinross libraries would like to mark 100 years of suffrage by hosting a panel discussion on how far we have come in those 100 years.

“Our panel will consist of local authors, journalists and businesswomen and will be hosted by writer Daniel Gray, the people’s historian.

“Dan will steer our panel through their discussion, forward to the next 100 years and think about how far women have come and what challenges still lie ahead.”

The spokesperson added: “A small exhibition of photos and text will support this panel discussion.”

Entry to the panel discussion is free, but tickets can be got in advanced online via EventBrite.