 Boucherett's activities for women's causes were inspired by reading the "English Woman's Journal", which reflected her own aims, and by an article in the "Edinburgh Review" about the problems of the many 'superfluous' women in England during the middle years of the nineteenth century, a time when there were far more women than men in the population.On 21 November 1865, Jessie Boucherett with the help of Barbara Bodichon and Helen Taylor brought up the idea of a parliamentary reform..They started a campaign to achieve the right to vote for women.