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Markoff, John. "Margins, Centers, and Democracy: The Paradigmatic History of Women's Suffrage," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society (2003) 29#1 pp 85–116. compares NZ with Cook Islands & Finland in JSTOR; Nellie Martel (1907). "Women's Votes in New Zealand and Australia". The Case for Women's Suffrage: 140– 153. Wikidata Q107261467.
For most of New Zealand's early history, voters needed to have attained at least 21 years of age in order to vote. At times, legislative changes (in 1919 and 1940) temporarily extended voting rights to people younger than this, such as in World War I and World War II (when serving military personnel could vote regardless of age and despite not ...
The Women's suffrage movement in India fought for Indian women's enfranchisement in Colonial India under British rule. Beyond suffrage , the movement was fighting for women's right to stand for and hold office during the colonial era.
She wrote extensively for women’s political journals and was an active member in various women's organisations. She was the leader of the Gisborne branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union New Zealand, which was active in advocacy on women’s issues generally and was a major force in the women’s suffrage movement.
In 1887, Julius Vogel introduced the first women's suffrage bill to Parliament, but it was unsuccessful. Women's suffrage in New Zealand was eventually granted after about two decades of campaigning by women such as Kate Sheppard and Mary Ann Müller and organisations such as the New Zealand branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union.
Patricia Ann Grimshaw, AO, FASSA, FAHA (born 16 December 1938) is a retired Australian academic who specialised in women's and Indigenous peoples' history. One of her most influential works is Women's Suffrage in New Zealand, first published in 1972, which is considered the definitive work on the story of how New Zealand became the first country in the world to give women the vote.
Gender equality in New Zealand; Goddess movement; Women's suffrage in New Zealand; Women's liberation movement in Oceania#New Zealand; Women in New Zealand; Anno Domini 2000, or, Woman's Destiny, an 1889 novel written by a former Prime Minister who foresaw a time when women would have the vote and hold positions of authority; Category:New ...
The first sheet of the 1893 Women's Suffrage Petition. Archives Reference LE1 1893/7a The 1893 women's suffrage petition was the third of three petitions to the New Zealand Government in support of women's suffrage and resulted in the Electoral Act 1893, which gave women the right to vote in the 1893 general election. The 1893 petition was substantially larger than the 1891 petition, which had ...