Manchester’s history is packed with inspiring women - the city found itself at the centre of the national campaign for equal voting rights, as Emmeline Pankhurst, now immortalised with a statue on St Peter’s Square, led the suffragette movement.
Joining Emmeline - a host of other brave Mancunian women including novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, and Middleton botanist Lydia Becker.
Fast-forward more than a century on, and you’ll find a city still full of women pushing to make the world a better place - from Dr Erinma Bell, the influential Manchester peace activist who was awarded an MBE for her work to rid Moss Side streets of gun crime, to Salfordian athlete Dame Sarah Storey, Great Britain's most successful female Paralympian.
