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                                            W O M E N ' S   S U F F R A G E





The term women's suffrage refers to the economic and political reform movement aimed at extending suffrage — the right to vote — to women.

The movement's origins are usually traced to the United States in the 1820s although the Isle of Man, a dependency of the United Kingdom, was the first place in the world to give universal suffrage to woman in national elections.

New Zealand, however, was the first fully Independent country to give woman universal suffrage.

New Zealand's movement was lead by Kate Sheppard.


In the following century the movement spread throughout the European and European-colonized
world, being adopted in places which had undergone more recent colonization.

Today women's suffrage is considered a right (under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women), although a few countries, mainly in the Middle East, continue to deny voting rights to women.