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The Woman Question: Writings by the Women Who Won the Vote (Auckland: New Women's Press, 1992) Smith, William Sidney (1905). Outlines of the women's franchise movement in New Zealand . Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs, Limited. Devaliant, Judith (1992). Kate Sheppard: The Fight for Women's Votes in New Zealand. Auckland: Penguin Books.
An 1893 cartoon depicting William Rolleston urging women to vote for the Conservative Party to whom they "owe the franchise". New Zealand women finally gained the right to vote in national elections with the passage of a bill by the Legislative Council in 1893. The House of Representatives (then the elected lower house) had passed such a bill ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 15 February 2025. New Zealand suffragist (1848–1934) For people with similar names, see Kate Shepherd and Katharine Shepard. Kate Sheppard Sheppard photographed in 1905 Born Catherine Wilson Malcolm (1848-03-10) 10 March 1848 Liverpool, England Died 13 July 1934 (1934-07-13) (aged 86) Christchurch, New ...
Women's suffrage was 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 led by Anne Ward. [4] Of countries presently independent, New Zealand was the first to give women the vote in modern times. [5]
In 1893, New Zealand was the first self-governing country to grant women the right to vote. This meant that, theoretically, New Zealand had universal suffrage from 1893, meaning all adults 21 years of age and older were allowed to vote (in 1969 the voting age was lowered from 21 to 20.
New Zealand was the first self-governing country in the world in which all women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections; from 1893. [3] However women could not stand for election to parliament until 1919, when three women stood (unsuccessfully); see 1919 in New Zealand .
Verdict: False. The Māori’s delayed the bill’s first reading, and didn’t affect voting of it. Fact Check: Members of Parliament in New Zealand representing the Maori people, labeled as Te ...
Women in New Zealand are women who live in or are from New Zealand. Notably New Zealand was the first self-governing country in the world where women were entitled to vote. In recent times New Zealand has had many women in top leadership and government roles, including three female Prime Ministers, most recently Jacinda Ardern.