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Video: On this day in 1918, leaders of the UK Suffragette movement won the right for women to vote

Even after 100 years of the historic move, women continue to fight the battle for equality.

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A suffragette meeting in Caxton Hall, Manchester, England circa 1908. Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and Emmeline Pankhurst stand in the center of the platform. | Wikimedia Commons
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