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The war served as a catalyst for suffrage extension in several countries, with women gaining the vote after years of campaigning partly in recognition of their support for the war effort, which further increased the pressure for suffrage in the U.S. [260] About half of the women in Britain had become enfranchised by January 1918, as had women ...
Although this constitution opened the way for the possibility of women's suffrage too (Article 6), [226] this did not materialize: the Electoral Law of 1926 did not grant women the right to vote, maintaining all male suffrage. [227] Starting in 1929, women who met certain qualifications were allowed to vote in local elections. [227]
White and African American women in the Territory of Alaska earn the right to vote. [33] Women in Illinois earn the right to vote in presidential elections. [27] 1914. Nevada and Montana women earn the right to vote. [22] 1917. Women in Arkansas earn the right to vote in primary elections. [22] Women in Rhode Island earn the right to vote in ...
19 th Amendment. Women in the U.S. won the right to vote for the first time in 1920 when Congress ratified the 19th Amendment.The fight for women’s suffrage stretched back to at least 1848, when ...
Learn about the history of voting rights in America, including when women were allowed to vote and why voter access is still an important issue today.
1887: In Kansas, women win the right to vote in municipal elections. [3] 1887: Rhode Island becomes the first eastern state to vote on a women's suffrage referendum, but it does not pass. [3] 1888–1889: Wyoming had already granted women voting and suffrage since 1869–70; now they insist that they maintain suffrage if Wyoming joins the Union.
One hundred years after getting the right to vote, women make up just 23.7% of Congress, less than in many other developed countries.
In March 1918, suffragists led the effort to get women the vote in state primary elections. [395] In seventeen days, TESA and other suffrage organizations registered approximately 386,000 Texas women to vote in the Democratic primary election in July 1918, which was the first time that women in Texas were able to vote. [395]