Women's suffrage

The movement for women's suffrage, led by suffragists (commonly called suffragettes), was a social, economic and political reform movement aimed at extending the suffrage (the right to vote) to women, advocating equal suffrage (abolition of graded votes) rather than universal suffrage (abolition of all discrimination, for example due to race), which was considered too radical.

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Suffragette - Reform movement - Suffrage - Vote - Universal suffrage

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In 1869 the Wyoming Territory in the United States became the first modern polity where equal suffrage was extended to women.

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1869 - Wyoming Territory - United States

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The small British colony of the Pitcairn Islands, (2004 population: 47) extended suffrage to women in 1838. In 1893, New Zealand was the first country to introduce universal suffrage, following a movement led by Kate Sheppard. Women first achieved the right to stand for public office in South Australia in 1894, along with suffrage in that state.

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Pitcairn Islands - 1838 - 1893 - New Zealand - Universal suffrage - Kate Sheppard - South Australia - 1894

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