393:, she served as the secretary of the Women's International League. Her principal concern, however, continued to be employment equality. She was involved in the Equal Compensation Campaign from 1941 to 1943 and became a member of the Equal Pay Campaign Committee in 1944, to ensure equal pay in the Civil Service. She was also active in the Women for Westminster group campaigning to increase the number of women MPs, and the drafted the Equal Citizenship (Blanket) Bill of 1944.
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pressed by Evans (she led a forty-hour siege of his doorstep in London), overruled Craig (who had supported the
Conciliation Bill) on a Unionist commitment to women's suffrage, Evans declared an end to "the truce we have held in Ulster." At a meeting held in Belfast’s Ulster Hall on 13 March 1914,
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Catholic background such as Carney were not directly involved. They might understood that while "to English eyes, it might have appeared that attacking the property of the Ulster Unionists was no different from attacking government buildings", in the "tense atmosphere of Belfast,
308:, "I am getting some mental and spiritual peace, though my body is suffering – I find I am getting ill much sooner now I am not taking water either… The cells here are darker than any I have seen". Because of her deterioration Evans was released on 26 July. She was cared for by a sister WPSU
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Abbeylands House where the
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which demanded legislative redress with regard to child abuse, widowed and unmarried mothers, equal parental rights, and equal pay and opportunity in schools and the civil service, and she joined the similarly programmed
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