Women in most countries of the world today can vote and be elected to public office the same basis as men. But it took centuries of work on the part of individuals and organizations to achieve those rights, often against strong opposition. In England, women petitioned for the right to vo...
and lay before him their demand for the Vote. The right to do this is secured to them by the Bill of Rights….’ In the event many women were arrested, although most of them had their cases adjourned ‘sine die’. Some, charged with stone throwing, were imprisoned and were some of t...
“Already today there are more women than men studying at Iranian universities, and they also work for a living and can own businesses and vote, so once sanctions are lifted and Iran reintegrates into the global economy, that should help women.” Government figures show 72 percent of working...
The first country to grant national-level voting rights to women was the self-governing British colony of New Zealand, which passed the Electoral Bill in September 1893. The British colony of South Australia granted full suffrage in 1894, giving women the right to vote and to stand for parliam...
In England women petitioned for the right to vote as early as the 15th century, but it was not until the 19th that most formal women suffrage movements began to take place New Zealand was the first country to grant women voting rights in 1863,followed by Australia in federal elections in ...
Emmeline Pankhurst was born in England, in 1858.Back then British women couldn’t vote(投票)in elections(选举), but men could.As Emmeline___she became interested in politics.She wanted to create a___equal(平等的)society for women.She wanted women to have the same___as men, such as...
The nineteenth century witnessed dramatic improvements in the legal rights of married women. Given that they took place long before women gained the right to vote, these changes amounted to a voluntary renunciation of power by men. In this paper, we investigate men's incentives for sharing power...
they could not vote. Women launched their own suffrage newspapers during the early 1900s, and most lobbied heavily for the suffrage cause. This culminated in the 19th Amendment, passed in 1920, which gave women the right to vote. Clearly, women journalists were making progress. But it would...
In 1913, the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage was created when Alice Paul and Lucy Burns broke away from NAWSA. It was later named the National Woman’s Party, which focused on constitutional amendment towards women’s right to vote. The women of NWP only gained public and legislative ...
Read the full-text online article and more details about "19 Women Didn't Vote ..They Were in England Having an Abortion; PRO-CHOICE CAMP DEMAND DEBATE" - The Mirror (London, England), March 9, 2002The Mirror (London, England)