Women's Cooperative Guild

The Women's Co-operative Guild won their campaign for a minimum wage for female employees of Co-operative stores.

At the invitation of Margaret Llewelyn Davies , Virginia Woolf attended the Women's Co-operative Guild Congress in Newcastle.

As the result of a campaign by the Women's Co-operative Guild , the National Insurance Act was amended to pay maternity benefit directly to mothers, instead of to their husbands.

The Central Board of Co-operative Union refused to give the Women's Co-operative Guild its annual grant unless the Guild withdrew its support for divorce law reform.

The Women's Co-operative Guild resolved to forfeit the £400 grant from the Co-operative Union rather than suspend the campaign for divorce law reform.

During the First World War, the Workers' War Emergency Committee was formed to address wartime labour issues.

The Women's Co-operative Guild published Maternity: Letters from Working Women, which revealed the terrible conditions working class women had to endure during pregnancy and childbirth.

The Government Food Prices Committee was appointed in response to concerns about rapidly rising food prices.

The Central Board of Co-operative Union once again withheld the annual £400 grant to the Women's Co-operative Guild .

Women's Co-operative Guild (WCG) launched a campaign for equal pay for equal work.

The Central Board of the Co-operative Union unconditionally restored its annual grant to the Women's Co-operative Guild .

The Maternity and Child Welfare Act encouraged local authorities to set up centres with provision for antenatal clinics.

The first women magistrates were appointed.

Margaret Llewelyn Davies resigned as General Secretary of the Women's Co-operative Guild .

Eleanor Barton became the General Secretary of the Women's Co-operative Guild (WCG).