Chelmsford TUC

However, we have not given up and we frequently invite leading women trade unionists to address the Council. Since 2001 we have held an annual exhibition in Chelmsford Library to celebrate International Women’s Day. We also launched a campaign to encourage trade unions to print International Women’s Day in their diary. We are delighted to say that a number have now done so. Can you help our campaign by raising the matter in your union?

A number of unions do mark International Women’s Day and the International Transport Federation has produced a series of posters and cards. Why not ask if your union can do something similar?

• Anne Knight - A Chelmsford heroine; she was an abolitionist, chartist, pacifist, and wrote the first leaflet on women’s suffrage.

• Annie Besant

• Barbara Castle

• Black Women in the Arts

• Disabled Women’s Network National Organization for Women

• Edith Summerskill

• Equal Opportunities Commission

• Emancipation of Women 1750 - 1920

• Feminist Theory

• Feminists For Free Expression

• Glasgow Women’s Library

• Global List of Women’s Organisations

• Hannah Mitchell

• Margaret Bondfield

• Mary Gawthorpe

• Mary Macarthur

• Matchgirls’ Strike

• National Assembly of Women

• Political Women

• Sylvia Pankhurst

• The Voice of Women’s Sport

• The Global Fund for Women

• UN Division for the Advancement of Women

• WomensNet

• Women’s Environmental Network

• Women Working World Wide

• Women’s Resource Centre

• Working Women’s Forum (India)

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