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  2. Women's suffrage - Wikipedia

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    Women were allowed to vote on a local level for the first time in the Thessaloniki local elections, on December 14, 1930, where 240 women exercised their right to do so. [205] Women's turnout remained low, at only around 15,000 in the national local elections of 1934, despite women being a narrow majority of the population of 6.8 million. [205]

  3. Women's suffrage in the United States - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Timeline of women's suffrage in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1870: The Utah Territory grants suffrage to women. [7]1870: The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted. The amendment holds that neither the United States nor any State can deny the right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude," leaving open the right of States to deny the right to vote on account of sex.

  5. Timeline of voting rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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 presidential elections. [27] Women in New York, Oklahoma, and South Dakota earn equal suffrage through their state constitutions. [27] 1918. Women in Texas earn the right ...

  6. When Did Women Get the Right to Vote? A Look Back at U ... - AOL

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    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.

  7. Timeline of women's suffrage - Wikipedia

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    Czechoslovakia (the newly adopted constitution guarantees universal suffrage incl. women and the first vote to the National Assembly is held; politically, the women's suffrage is guaranteed already in the Declaration of Independence from 1918, and women vote in local elections in 1919)

  8. Women won the right to vote 100 years ago. What Pelosi and ...

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    One hundred years after getting the right to vote, women make up just 23.7% of Congress, less than in many other developed countries.

  9. Women's suffrage in states of the United States - Wikipedia

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    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]