Who is this person?
Louisa Lawson is a well known feminist, Journalist and women's rights activist. She was born on the 17th of February 1848. And passed away on the 12th of August 1920. Louisa had five kids called Henry, Peter, Charlie and Gertrude but sadly Gertrude’s twin sister died at birth. After she had her children she decided to move to Sydney. Whilst she was there she worked by sewing and selling dairy products. As well as that Louisa Lawson started to realise the reality of the inequality between men and women and the fact that women were restricted to vote. So she created a paper Called Dawn. Dawn was made to help make women's lives better and easier and to help them avoid being ruled by men.
What did she do in Australian Federation? Louisa Lawson wasn’t a Government or parliament member but she helped women get the right to vote. As previously mentioned Louisa’s journal and campaign Dawn was made to help women's lives better. When Louisa Lawson arrived in Sydney she noticed the devastating fact that women were nowhere near as equal to men. Due to this in 1888 Lawson created a paper called Dawn. Over the years men took over business and women. Lot’s of men disapproved of this and tried to stop herself and her progress of making women equal to men. The New South Wales Typographical association threatened to shut down her paper Dawn. This further established her role as a feminist and encouraged her to take further action in the battle for…show more content… Louisa Lawson was most definitely a risk taker. She risked so much for every female Australian. She was open-minded and broke all bares to persuade every person in Australia to realise that there should be no difference between men and women.In the words Louisa once quoted “There is no power in the world like that of women this most potent constituency we seek to represent, and for their suffrages we
