{"id":78,"date":"2021-09-30T08:54:38","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T07:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/?p=78"},"modified":"2021-09-30T08:54:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T07:54:40","slug":"edi-reading-adam-thompson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/2021\/09\/30\/edi-reading-adam-thompson-2\/","title":{"rendered":"EDI Reading &#8211; Adam Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Today (19th September) marks 128 years since New Zealand signed a new Electoral Act into law. By way of this landmark legislation, in 1893 New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world in which women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections.<br><br>In the previous 128 years there has been rapid and significant progress for women\u2019s rights around the world, however it is also interesting to note that it would take a further 26 years of campaigning before women could stand for parliament in New Zealand. There is a wealth of reading on the subject of women\u2019s vote, I found the National Trust\u2019s \u2018Women and Power\u2019 podcast series exploring the stories behind key characters in the suffrage debate particularly engaging. &nbsp;The five-part series uncovers the rarely known stories of maids, mill-workers, politicians and even royalty, who fought and campaigned to help shape the world we live in today. The Suffragette movement is still relevant today as women still fight for equality in many aspects of everyday life around the world. Malala Yousfazai, who campaigns for the education of girls in other countries has suffered physically as a consequence of her actions, her anguish is evidence that women still need to work hard for rights that should be legal now. \u201cThe rights of women and girls are the unfinished business of the 21st century.\u201d Hilary Clinton.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background\" style=\"background-color:#00a1a3\">Listen to the Podcast<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (19th September) marks 128 years since New Zealand signed a new Electoral Act into law. By way of this landmark legislation, in 1893 New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world in which women had the right &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/2021\/09\/30\/edi-reading-adam-thompson-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10323,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10323"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/snes-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}