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Women's suffrage
Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Beginning in the start of the 18th century, some people sought to change voting laws to allow women to vote. Liberal political parties would go on to grant women the right to vot ...
refers to the right of a woman to vote in an election
An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office.
Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has opera ...
. This right was often not included in the original suffrage legislation of a state or country, resulting in both men and women campaigning to introduce legislation to enable women to vote. Actions included writing letters to newspapers and legislators, compiling petitions, holding marches and rallies and carrying out acts of violence. Women were on occasion arrested for these actions and held in jail, during which time some went on hunger strike
A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance in which participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke a feeling of guilt in others, usually with the objective to achieve a specific goal, such as a policy change. Most ...
s, refusing to eat for the duration of their incarceration.
Monuments and memorials to women's suffrage have been constructed around the world in recognition of the bravery and strength of the women who campaigned for voting rights, and the achievement of having the legislation passed.
Australia
Canada
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United Kingdom
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*See also
* Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum, Adams, Massachusetts * Susan B. Anthony Childhood House, Battenville, New York * Susan B. Anthony House, Rochester, New York * Elizabeth Cady Stanton House, Seneca Falls, New York * Elizabeth Cady Stanton House, Tenafly, New Jersey * Paulsdale, Mount Laurel Township, New Jersey, birthplace and childhood home of Alice Paul *Women's Rights National Historical Park
Women's Rights National Historical Park was established in 1980, and covers a total of of land in Seneca Falls and nearby Waterloo, New York, United States.
The park consists of four major historical properties including the Wesleyan Methodi ...
, Seneca County, New York
** M'Clintock House, site of the writing of the 1848 Declaration of Sentiments
The Declaration of Sentiments, also known as the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, is a document signed in 1848 by 68 women and 32 men—100 out of some 300 attendees at the first women's rights convention to be organized by women. Held in Sen ...
** Wesleyan Methodist Church, site of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman".Wellman, 2004, p. 189 Held in the Wesleyan Chapel of the tow ...
* '' Centenary of Women's Suffrage mural'', Lake Grace, Australia
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