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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.
Indira Gandhi in 1966; she was the first woman Prime Minister of India.. The term 'political participation' has a wide meaning. It relates to not only the right to vote but also participation in decision-making process, political activism, and political consciousness, among others.
British Raj Bihar and Orissa Province became the last of the provinces in British India to grant women's limited suffrage with income and property restrictions. [64] Ecuador (the right of women to vote is written into the Constitution) Puerto Rico (literate women given the right to vote. Equal suffrage granted in 1935.)
Women in India were allowed to vote right from the first general elections after the independence of India in 1947 unlike during the British rule who resisted allowing women to vote. [145] The Women's Indian Association (WIA) was founded in 1917.
Lakshmibai Rajwade (1887–1984) was an Indian medical doctor, feminist, and family planning advocate. She was also a suffragist and advocate for the right of women to vote in India, and presided over the All India Women's Conference as well as acting as its secretary.
19 th Amendment. Women in the U.S. won the right to vote for the first time in 1920 when Congress ratified the 19th Amendment.The fight for women’s suffrage stretched back to at least 1848, when ...
Annie Besant (1 October 1847 – 20 September 1933) was a British born socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist and campaigner for Indian nationalism. [16] She was an ardent supporter of the Indian self-rule and became the first female president of the Indian National Congress in 1917. [17]
One hundred years after getting the right to vote, women make up just 23.7% of Congress, less than in many other developed countries.