Fawcett Society

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The Fawcett Society is an organization in the United Kingdom which promotes feminism and campaigns for women's rights.

It is a charity registered with the Charity Commission. It grew out of the suffragette movement of the second half of the 19th century, and in 1953 was renamed the Fawcett Society, in honour of founder Millicent Fawcett.

The organisation states that it campaigns on "women’s representation in politics and public life; pay, pensions and poverty; valuing caring work; and the treatment of women in the justice system".^[1]

The library and archives of the Society, formerly the Fawcett Library, are now part of the Women's Library at London Metropolitan University.

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• Fawcett Society website
• The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, which holds the Society's records

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