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Women's suffrage

Women's suffrage or woman suffrage is the right of women to vote and to run for office. The expression is also used for the economic and political reform movement aimed at extending these rights to women and without any restrictions or qualifications such as property ownership, payment of tax, or marital status...

Timeline of Events

1872

11.5.1872

Women's suffrage: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.

1893

9.19.1893

Women's suffrage: in New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.

1915

6.5.1915

Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.

1945

10.21.1945

Women's suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time.

2005

5.16.2005

Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote.