At that election Leila Reitz (wife of Deneys Reitz) was elected as the first female MP, representing Parktown for the South African Party. [219] Another ongoing tactic of the National Woman's Party was watchfires, which involved burning copies of President Wilson's speeches, often outside the White House or in the nearby Lafayette Park. Indigenous Australians were not given the right to vote in all states until 1962. The original draft of the Gurdwara Act sent by the British to the Sharomani Gurdwara Prabhandak Committee (SGPC) did not include Sikh women, but the Sikhs inserted the clause without the women having to ask for it. About 8.4 million women gained the vote in Great Britain and Ireland. [12], The newly federated Australian Federal Parliament passed laws to permit voting and standing for election, to adult women for National elections from 1902 (with the exception of Aboriginal women in some states).[23]. Women in Rarotonga won the right to vote in 1893, shortly after New Zealand. After his landslide victory, he introduced a bill in 1918 for extending the franchise to women. "The woman citizen: social feminism in the 1920s" p. 13. [13], Initially, the right to vote in local city elections (mayoral elections) was granted to every burgher, which was defined as a taxpaying citizen with a guild membership. [136] Women were finally able to participate in the 1956 election, with two more women becoming members of parliament; Lina Tsaldari, wife of former Prime Minister Panagis Tsaldaris, won the most votes of any candidate in the country and became the first female minister in Greece under the conservative National Radical Union government of Konstantinos Karamanlis.[136]. The first woman to lead a major political party was Aleka Papariga, who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece from 1991 to 2013. [225][226] The Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibited racial discrimination in voting, and secured voting rights for racial minorities throughout the U.S.[225]. [169], A referendum on women's suffrage was held on February 1, 1959. [171], Switzerland was the last Western republic to grant women's suffrage; they gained the right to vote in federal elections in 1971 after a second referendum that year. The push to grant Utah women's suffrage was at least partially fueled by the belief that, given the right to vote, Utah women would dispose of polygamy. In 2010 Sydney, Australia's oldest city, had female leaders occupying every major political office, with Clover Moore as Lord Mayor, Kristina Keneally as Premier of New South Wales, Marie Bashir as Governor of New South Wales, Julia Gillard as Prime Minister, Quentin Bryce as Governor-General of Australia, and Elizabeth  II as Queen of Australia. [213] On February 12, 1870, the Secretary of the Territory and Acting Governor of the Territory of Utah, S. A. Mann, approved a law allowing twenty-one-year-old women to vote in any election in Utah.[214].

The first (and as of 2020, the only) woman to be elected Prime Minister of Israel was Golda Meir in 1969. Hannam, June, Mitzi Auchterlonie, and Katherine Holden. "The Women's Victory – and After". Middle class women won the right to vote in municipal elections in 1901 and parliamentary elections in 1907. The key vote came on June 4, 1919,[223] when the Senate approved the amendment by 56 to 25 after four hours of debate, during which Democratic Senators opposed to the amendment filibustered to prevent a roll call until their absent Senators could be protected by pairs. McCulloch, John E. S, "From suffragists to legislators", Central Queensland University Press, 2005. [1] National and international organizations formed to coordinate efforts towards that objective, especially the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (founded in 1904 in Berlin, Germany), as well as for equal civil rights for women. ", "The Fusae Ichikawa Memorial Association", "The Empowerment of Women in South Korea", "In Saudi Arabia, a Quiet Step Forward for Women", "UPDATE 2-Saudi king gives women right to vote", "Saudi monarch grants kingdom's women right to vote, but driving ban remains in force", "Saudi women vote for the first time, testing boundaries", "Saudi Arabia: First women councillors elected", "Saudi voters elect 20 women candidates for the first time", "Women in Saudi Arabia to vote and run in elections", "Saudi king grants women seats on advisory council for 1st time", "Breakthrough in Saudi Arabia: women allowed in parliament", "The Long Way to Women's Right to Vote in Switzerland: a Chronology", "Experts in women's anti-discrimination committee raise questions concerning reports of Switzerland on compliance with convention", "Verfassung des Königreichs Belgien (1831)", Women in Business Families: From Past to Present, Real bridge-builder became Finland’s first female government minister, "Ordonnance du 21 avril 1944 relative à l'organisation des pouvoirs publics en France après la Libération", "La citoyenneté politique des femmes – La décision du Général de Gaulle", "Le statut des musulmans en Algérie coloniale. Edith Cowan was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly in 1921, the first woman elected to any Australian Parliament. During WWI, Denmark, Canada, Russia, Germany, and Poland also recognized women's right to vote. Now that Saudi Arabia has granted voting rights to women (2015), women can vote in every country that has elections.[7]. However, this franchise was excluded from women (and men) who were "aboriginal natives" of Australia, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific Islands, unless excepted under section 41 of the constitution. Similar provision was made for the Legislative Assemblies created for other bantustans. "Votes for women" p. 112. 1908 at local elections, 1915 at national parliamentary elections. "[33], There was also a diversity of views on a "woman's place". With this it provided the first action for women's suffrage within the British Isles. In Switzerland, women gained the right to vote in federal elections in 1971;[114] but in the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden women obtained the right to vote on local issues only in 1991, when the canton was forced to do so by the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland. [199] Important advocates for women's suffrage include Hermila Galindo (Mexico), Eva Perón (Argentina), Alicia Moreau de Justo (Argentina), Julieta Lanteri (Argentina), Celina Guimarães Viana (Brazil), Ivone Guimarães (Brazil), Henrietta Müller (Chile), Marta Vergara (Chile), Lucila Rubio de Laverde (Colombia), María Currea Manrique (Colombia), Josefa Toledo de Aguerri (Nicaragua), Elida Campodónico (Panama), Clara González (Panama), Gumercinda Páez (Panama), Paulina Luisi Janicki (Uruguay), Carmen Clemente Travieso, (Venezuela). In June 1848, Gerrit Smith made women's suffrage a plank in the Liberty Party platform. It enacted equal voting rights for both men and women in 1947. No elections were held in Bahrain prior to 2002 since 1973. Although women could vote, they could be elected only to the Senate and not to the Chamber of Deputies (Article 4 (c)).

The ‘Monster petition' was signed by both men and women.

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