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In 1907, she founded the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women, later called the Women's Political Union, whose membership was based on working women, both professional and industrial. The Equality League initiated the practice of holding suffrage parades and organized the first open air suffrage rallies in thirty years. [ 219 ]
For countries that have their origins in self-governing colonies but later became independent nations in the 20th century, the Colony of New Zealand was the first to acknowledge women's right to vote in 1893, largely due to a movement led by Kate Sheppard. The British protectorate of Cook Islands rendered the same right in 1893 as well. [38]
The National Association Opposed to Women Suffrage opposed women's right to vote because they said that the majority of women did not want the right to vote, [53] and because they believed that the men in their lives accurately represented the political will of women around the United States. NAOWS submitted pamphlets like these to the general ...
Soon after the Civil War, women gained the right to vote in Wyoming — even before the territory became the 44th state. But over the past 130 years, the state has continued to, ever so slowly ...
More women support Democrats, a gender gap that seems likely to widen as the fall of Roe v. Wade turned the US into a country with abortion-rights states and abortion-ban states.
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 Puerto Rico, for example, women did not receive the right to vote until 1929, but was limited to literate women until 1935. [122] Further, the 1975 extensions of the Voting Rights Act included requiring bilingual ballots and voting materials in certain regions, making it easier for Latina women to vote. [117] [118]
This underrepresentation makes our political participation even more imperative. To that end, HuffPost Women has partnered with Rock The Vote, and more than 50 other women's media brands for a cross-brand effort to encourage and help women across the country to register to vote. Because, quite simply, #OurVoteCounts.