10 Interesting Fact About The history of the Women's Suffrage Movement

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• Women's voting rights movements began in the 19th century and lasted for decades before success.
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony are two main figures in the voting rights of women in the United States.
• Women's voting rights movements in the UK began in the 1860s and the first general election with female voting rights was held in 1918.
• New Zealand became the first country in the world to give full voting rights to women in 1893.
• Women's voting campaigns are often influenced by alcohol abstinence movements because many women see alcohol as a source of social problems and domestic violence.
• Initially, the female voting rights movement received a lot of support from the quaker group and abolitionist movement.
• Women's voting movements in the United States are divided into two main groups, namely the state voting rights movement and federal voting rights movement.
• In 1903, the National Womens Trade Union League organization was formed to fight for women's rights in the workplace.
• Women's voting rights movement in Australia achieved success in 1902 by giving voting rights to women in federal elections.
• Women's voting rights movements not only fight for voting rights, but also other rights such as rights to education and property rights.