in the UK and US, a woman who took part in public protests about giving women the right to vote in the early 1900s. Suffragettes were prepared to break the law in order to support their demands, but suffragists used only lawful methods. (20世纪初英美两国)为女性争取选举权的女子
Hetty was a suffragette who fought for the right to vote.
Emmeline Pankhurst led the militant suffragette movement from 1903 to 1918.
The term 'suffragette' was coined by a journalist on the London Daily Mail, Charles E. Hands. He intended it to be derogatory, but the movement adopted it and made it their own.