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STRAIGH
The struggle for womens political rights afther almost a century began in France during that revolution. lts protagonists denounced that liberty, equality and frathernity only referred to men. One of the most energetic voices of protest was of Olimpia de Gouges, author of the Declaration of the Rights of womend and Citizents, a document in witch she declared for women the seme political rights enjoyed by men, incluiding the right to vote. -
SENECA FALLS
The first womens rights convention in te Unitate States was held in Seneca Falls, New York. The ideals of freedom and equality found their plastic expression thought women as symbos of purity, innocence and joustice in a petition for male rights. -
JHON STUART MILL
The firlst revelant action of English suffragism was the action carried out by Jhon Stuart Mill in 1866 in Parliament where he presented a petition signed by 1,500 women who demanded that the suffrage reform begin debated at that time should include women's suffrage. At thata time only heads of households and landowners had the right to vote. -
EMMELYNE PANKHYURST
The most prominent leader of Eanglesh Suffragism was Emmeline Pankhyurst, a memeber of the Burghers, who faunded the WSPU (Womens, socyal and political Union) in Manchester. She became and icon for suffrage at the beguinning of the 20th century in Eangland because she led many violent movements claiming this right by force. She was like the Matriarch. -
EMILI DAVISON
Emily Davison was a suffragestt who had been active for seven years in one of the Brithis suffragete organizations that sought to give women the right to vote.
During these 7 years, she and her companions has tried all sorts of methods to make their cause visible. -
FIRSTH VOTE FOR WOMEEN IN USA
Women in the UK can vote for the first time. Suffrage was limited to those over the age of 30, who had to meet certain propierty requirements. Ten years lather, in 1928 womens suffrage was extended who all women before the age of 21, on an equal foothing whit men. -
THE LAWS GIVE AWAY
In 1946 in newely liberted Frnace granted women the right to vote, witchhad been rejected by Parliament in 1919 and 1992. Suffrage was an implicit recognition of women s role in the Resistance.
The firsts European countries to allow the right vote were Finland, Norway and Swece. -
SPAIN CHANGE
In Spain things has been somewhat different. In principle, women obtained the right to vote in 1933 in Eilbar, althrout the right to vote had been recognized since then, Spanish women were not able to reconoze until 80 years latter.
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