“Suffragist is a more general term for members of the movement, whether radical or conservative, male or female. American women preferred this more inclusive title, but people in the United States who were hostile to suffrage for the American woman used the UK word - suffragette - pejoratively so, since the feminine-sounding version could be dismissed more easily.”

I work with a (great?) granddaughter of one of our feminist forebears. She always insists that “suffragettes” was a demeaning term. Apparently “suffragists” is the preferred term. But mention this only on hearsay.