32 Facts About Women's suffrage

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Black women in the United States, achieving Women's suffrage was a way to counter the disfranchisement of the men of their race.

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Women's suffrage was included by the Kuomintang Government in the Constitution of 1936, but because of the war, the reform could not be enacted until after the war and was finally introduced in 1947.

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Women's suffrage had been expressly excluded in the Iranian Constitution of 1906 and a women's rights movement had been organized, which supported women's suffrage.

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In 1956, a new campaign for women's suffrage was launched by the New Path Society, the Association of Women Lawyers (Anjoman-e zanan-e hoquqdan) and the League of Women Supporters of Human Rights (Jam?iyat-e zanan-e tarafdar-e hoquq-e basar).

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Women's suffrage's is the world's first democratically elected female head of government.

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The introduction of women's suffrage was already put onto the agenda at the time, by means of including an article in the constitution that allowed approval of women's suffrage by special law.

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The Bulgarian Women's suffrage Union was an umbrella organization of the 27 local women's organisations that had been established in Bulgaria since 1878.

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In Denmark, the Danish Women's Society debated, and informally supported, women's suffrage from 1884, but it did not support it publicly until in 1887, when it supported the suggestion of the parliamentarian Fredrik Bajer to grant women municipal suffrage.

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However, as the KF was very much involved with worker's rights and pacifist activity, the question of women's suffrage was in fact not given full attention, which led to the establishment of the strictly women's suffrage movement Kvindevalgretsforeningen.

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In 1890, the KF and the Kvindevalgretsforeningen united with five women's trade worker's unions to found the De samlede Kvindeforeninger, and through this form, an active women's suffrage campaign was arranged through agitation and demonstration.

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In Vaasa, there was opposition against women participating in the town hall discussing political issues, as this was not seen as their right place, and women's suffrage appears to have been opposed in practice in some parts of the realm: when Anna Elisabeth Baer and two other women petitioned to vote in Turku in 1771, they were not allowed to do so by town officials.

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Women's suffrage turnout remained low, at only around 15, 000 in the national local elections of 1934, despite women being a narrow majority of the population of 6.

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In Monaco, Women's suffrage was not introduced after a long campaign, but was introcuced as a part of the new Constitution, alongside Parliamentarism, an independent court system and a number of other legal and political reforms.

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Women's suffrage's founded the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights and the National Association for Women's Suffrage to promote this cause.

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Women's suffrage was officially adopted in 1931 despite the opposition of Margarita Nelken and Victoria Kent, two female MPs, who argued that women in Spain at that moment lacked social and political education enough to vote responsibly because they would be unduly influenced by Catholic priests.

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In Vaasa in Finland, there was opposition against women participating in the town hall discussing political issues as this was not seen as their right place, and women's suffrage appears to have been opposed in practice in some parts of the realm: when Anna Elisabeth Baer and two other women petitioned to vote in Abo in 1771, they were not allowed to do so by town officials.

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Women's suffrage was first abolished for taxpaying unmarried women of legal majority, and then for widows.

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Women's suffrage's was elected to the parliament in 1991 general elections and she became prime minister on June 25, 1993, when her cabinet was approved by the parliament.

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John Stuart Mill, elected to Parliament in 1865 and an open advocate of female Women's suffrage, campaigned for an amendment to the Reform Act 1832 to include female Women's suffrage.

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Great pioneer of women's suffrage was Julieta Lanteri, the daughter of Italian immigrants, who in 1910 requested a national court to grant her the right to citizenship as well as suffrage.

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Women's suffrage asks a necessity new organize more extended and remodeled groups.

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The struggle for women's suffrage was part of a larger movement to gain rights for women.

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Campaign for women's suffrage in begun in the 1910s, and the campaigns were active during all electoral reforms in 1913, 1913, 1925, 1927 and 1946, notably by the Feminist League, which was a part of the International League of Iberian and Hispanic-American Women, who had a continuing campaign between 1925 and 1945.

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Campaign for women's suffrage begun in the 1920s, when Cuban elite feminists started to collaborate and campaign for women's issues; they arranged congresses in 1923, 1925 and 1939, and managed to achieve a reformed property rights law a no-fault divorce law (1918), and finally women's suffrage in 1934.

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Campaign for women's suffrage begun in the 1920s, notably by the leading figure Prudencia Ayala.

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However, the qualifications were extreme and excluded 80 percent of women so the Women's suffrage movement continued its campaign in the 1940s, notably by Matilde Elena Lopez and Ana Rosa Ochoa, until the restrictions was lifted in 1950.

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Campaign for women's suffrage in begun in the 1920s, notably by the organisations Gabriela Mistral Society and Graciela Quan's Guatemalan Feminine Pro-Citizenship Union (1945).

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Campaign for women's suffrage begun in the 1920s, notably by the leading figure Visitacion Padilla, who was the leader of the biggest women's organisation.

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Women's suffrage was gained in Paraguay in 1961, primarily because the strongarm president, Alfredo Stroessner, lacking the approval of his male constituents, sought to bolster his support through women voters.

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The women's suffrage movement was closely tied to abolitionism, with many suffrage activists gaining their first experience as anti-slavery activists.

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Women's suffrage activists pointed out that black people had been granted the franchise and had not been included in the language of the United States Constitution's Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments.

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Women's suffrage was announced as a principle in the Constitution of Uruguay of 1917, and declared as law in a decree of 1932.

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