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Emily Stowe. The cause of women's suffrage began in 1876, when Dr. Emily Stowe came to Toronto to practice medicine. [8] She was the first, and for many years the sole, woman physician in Canada. [9]
Women also established and became involved with organizations to advance women's rights, including suffrage. In 1893, the National Council of Women of Canada was formed which was designed to bring together representatives of different women's groups across Canada, providing a network for women to communicate their concerns and ideas. [9]
The Canadian Women's Suffrage Association, originally called the Toronto Women's Literary Guild, was an organization based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that fought for women's rights. After the association had been inactive for a while, the leaders founded the Dominion Women's Enfranchisement Association in 1889.
During WWI, Denmark, Russia, Germany, and Poland also recognized women's right to vote. Canada gave right to vote to some women in 1917; women getting vote on same basis as men in 1920, that is, men and women of certain races or status being excluded from voting until 1960, when universal adult suffrage was achieved. [42]
The Department of Women and Gender Equality provides funding for organizations that empower women's rights in Canada. The department provides funding through the Women's Program whose three priority areas lie "in ending violence against women and girls, improving women's and girls' economic security and prosperity, and encouraging women and ...
Bergby was the third man in a row from the Nordic countries nominated to the committee while no women had been nominated from the Nordic countries since the 1990s; the Norwegian Foreign Ministry told the women's rights NGOs that they refused to nominate a woman as a matter of principle because they wanted a man for the third time due to a need ...
Women's suffrage – the right of women to vote – has been achieved at various times in countries throughout the world. In many nations, women's suffrage was granted before universal suffrage , in which cases women and men from certain socioeconomic classes or races were still unable to vote.
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