The Guardian view on women’s suffrage: still no real equality | Editorial

Political change is important but it’s not enough on its own. More needs to be done to tackle the barriers to progress“It is a great achievement, a mighty constitutional landmark,” the Guardian declared a century ago. After a campaign that had lasted more than 50 years, that had seen violence and death – as well as the forcefeeding of a thousand suffragettes in prison – women had at last won “the full rights of citizenship”; some women, at leas