I could have changed my surname on marriage, but I chose not to.
"I could have run away and done something different. And it's one that still resonates more than a century after it began appearing in newspaper headlines.Īs the great-granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst and the granddaughter of Sylvia Pankhurst – pioneering figures in the Suffragette movement – it is perhaps inevitable that Dr Helen Pankhurst is also a women's rights activist and can be found at the heart of a continuing battle for equality.īut rather than feel a responsibility and pressure to follow in the footsteps of her ancestors, growing up as a child in Ethiopia and witnessing at first hand the strength and subordination of women there who were the ones who collected wood and water on their heads and backs, she formed her own feminist thoughts at an early age. THE name Pankhurst is synonymous with women's rights.
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