… as Victorians began to recognize women as thinking people. As the year 1900 approached, women intellectuals began to speak openly. Many joined the Fabian Society, a group of socialists. Others sought reform for more practical dress (e.g. no corsets), better education, the right to keep their profits from paid work for themselves, better employment prospects, and better pay for women.
Most notoriously, women began the campaign in Britain that would lead thinking women around the world to have the right to vote and for birth control. The Victorian Era would be known for beginning the women’s rights movement worldwide.