Does anyone on list know of any website that lists jobs that allowed women the right to vote between 1918 and 1925 please Rob

check Representation of the People Act it was not jobs: The terms of the act were:[2] All adult males gain the vote, as long as they are 21 years old or over and are resident in the constituency Women over 30 years old receive the vote but they have to be either a member or married to a member of the Local Government Register Some seats redistributed to industrial towns Elections to be held on a decided day each year Membership of the Local Government Register was based on the right to vote through property ownership or marriage to a man who owned property. The age was set at 30 as the loss of men in the War meant that putting the women's voting age at 21 would have given them a majority Lots of material on the web Wendy -----Original Message----- From: Robert Burns Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 2:30 PM To: yorksgen@rootsweb.com Subject: [YORKSGEN] Occupations that gave voting rights Does anyone on list know of any website that lists jobs that allowed women the right to vote between 1918 and 1925 please Rob ..... Ancestors in Yorkshire? http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/index.html; www.ryedalefamilyhistory.org; www.wharfedalefhg.org.uk; www.yorkshireparishregisters.com; www.yorkshireroots.org.uk; ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to YORKSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message