Celebrating 100 years of Welsh Women

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Today marks 100 years since the first women were given the right to vote in the UK.

Some women over the age of 30 were able to vote following the Representation of the People Act in 1918.

The Women's Equality Network is marking the centenary by celebrating 100 Welsh women.

The list will span education, science, sport, the arts and politics and will cover both historical and contemporary women.

The public are being asked to vote on the Welsh woman who has had the biggest impact.

This woman will receive a statue in central Cardiff.

Some of the women the public are being asked to vote on include:

Susan Williams-Ellis (1918-2007), potter and businesswoman, founder and designer of Portmeirion pottery
Betty Campbell (1935-2017), first BME head teacher in Wales, Mount Stuart Primary School, Butetown

Betty Campbell has been described as a 'true pioneer' and 'inspiration to other black and ethnic minority people'.

Megan Lloyd George (left) with her father, former Prime Minister David Lloyd George and his second wife, Frances Credit: PA

Gwenllian Morgan (1852-1939), first woman Mayor in Wales, writer
Betsi Cadwaladr (1789-1860), nurse (Crimean War), author
Hester Millicent MacKenzie (formerly Hughes) (1863-1942), first female Professor in Wales, first female Professor appointed to a fully chartered UK university
Laura Ashley (formerly Mountney) (1925-1985), designer, businesswoman, founder of Laura Ashley

Laura Ashley stores can be found across the world. Credit: PA

Margaret Haig Mackworth (formerly Thomas) (1883-1958), suffragette, campaigner for women's rights, businesswoman, blew up a post box and put in Usk Prison
Irene Steer (1889-1977), swimmer, first Welsh woman Olympic Gold medallist
Rachel Thomas (1905-1995) actress, appeared in 1971 film Under Milk Wood with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, mainstay of Pobl y Cwm
Gwerfyl Mechain (1460-1502) Welsh-language poet