Watson had joined the
Women's Freedom League in 1911. She continued the league's non-violent methods by writing for the left-wing
Daily Herald under the title of
Sketches in Green, Gold and White. Watson decided to document what she saw as unfair practice. She was employed as the Court correspondent for
The Vote and she recorded the crimes or rape, sexual assault and incest ironically under the title of "The Protected Sex". She catalogued the sentences given to the perpetrators noting that prostitutes could get nine months for approaching clients whereas a man guilty of grievously harming a woman might get a third of the sentence. She started this work in 1912 and continued for three years to compare the sentences with those handed down for loss or damage to property. She was a campaigner against
Female Genital Mutilation in the 1930s. She wanted to have the practice banned inside the
British Empire. == Death and legacy ==