Women's Emancipation Bill

The Women's Emancipation Bill was a Private members' bill introduced by the Labour Party in 1919, which proposed to give women voting rights on the same terms as men, to remove the disqualification blocking women from holding civil and judicial roles (such as working as civil servants, lawyers and magistrates), and to allow women who were peers in their own right to sit and vote in the House of Lords. The Bill successfully passed through the House of Commons but was replaced by a more limited Bill when it reached the House of Lords and did not become an Act.