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Declaration of of sentiments (also known as Seneca Falls)
The first Women's Rights Convention is located in Seneca Falls, New York. During this event, Elizabeth Cady and Lucretia Mott wrote “The Declaration of Sentiments”, a document which demanded equality for women in the work place and the right to vote. This marked the start of the Women's Rights Movement. -
First National Convention
The first national convention was held in Massachusetts. It lasted two days, and just in the first part of the evento, 900 citizens visited the place. This first National Women's Rights Convention is so important because it meant that the suffragates were being listened all around the US. Furthermore, in this convention, some male actively participated supporting women. -
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Civil war activism
During the Civil War, suffragates continued to fight for their rights. But specially, they were completely against slavery, and they tried to abolish it. Elizabeth Cady and Susan. B Anthony, found the Women's Loyal National League. Its main aim was to abolish slavery, “emancipating all persons of African descent held to involuntary service or labor in the United States”. -
The National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA)
The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) was formed in New York by Elizabeth Cady. It was a more radical institution, that wanted the vote for women by a Constitutional ammendment. In the same year, more conservative women founded in Boston the American Women Suffrage Association (AWSA). This division was caused because of the Fifteenth amendment that was against the right to vote of black citizens, in the NWSA they were against this law and the womens in the AWSA supported it. -
Anti-Suffrage Party
The Anti-Suffrage Party was founded. Many imortant women such as Ellen Sherman, (wife of General William Tecumseh Sherman) supported it. They thought that women voting was unnatural, that women participating in the work place would be an inconvenience in participating in their only purpose; being a wife or a mother. Later they became the Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women. This began the period in which women would oppose their own rights. -
Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
At the first National Sunday School Assembly held in New York, Mrs. Mattie McClellan Brown suggested a committee to send out a call for a national delegated convention to meet in Cleveland. Frances Willard was the 2nd WCTU President. She believed that women, as the moral guardians of the home, should be involved in public and political activity. She increased the reform activity with choices for local chapters. This made it possible for women to work on issues that concerned them. -
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The progressive era begins
During this period, women's organizations not only worked to gain the right to vote, they also worked for broad-based economic and political equality and for social reforms. Between 1880 and 1910, the number of women employed in the United States increased from 2.6 million to 7.8 million. Although women began to be employed in business and industry, the majority of better paying positions continued to go to men. Afterwards, 60 percent of all working women were employed as domestic servants. -
Women suffrage in Australia
Women's suffrage in Australia was one of the earliest objectives of the movement for gender equality in Australia. In 1902, the newly established Australian Parliament passed a uniform law enabling women to vote at federal elections and to stand for the federal Parliament. This removed gender discrimination for white people in relation to electoral rights for federal elections in Australia. It took longer before women could stand for parliament throughout Australia. -
The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)
The Women's Social and Political Union was a women-only political movement and leading militant organisation campaigning for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom from 1903 to 1918. Known from 1906 as the suffragettes. The WSPU membership became known for civil disobedience and direct action. It heckled politicians, held demonstrations and marches, broke the law to force arrests, broke windows in prominent buildings, set fire to post boxes, and when imprisoned went on hunger strike. -
The National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (NAOWS)
The National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, was formed in New York during a convention of anti-suffrage groups. Led by Josephine Dodge (the founder and first president) the NAOWS believed that woman suffrage would decrease women’s work in communities and their ability to do society reforms. They started a newsletter, Woman’s Protest (renamed as Woman Patriot in 1918). In 1918 they moved to Washington, where it operated until its disbandment in 1920. -
Women suffrage in Canada
Women over 21 who met certain property qualifications were allowed to vote in federal elections in 1918, but it was not until 1940 that Quebec women won the right to vote in provincial elections. -
Women suffrage in Austria
Women in Austria were able to vote in February 1919, this law was changed after The Constituent National Assembly of the same year . -
Women suffrage in Poland
Poland was among the first countries to achieve women's suffrage. In November 1918, just two weeks after Poland became independent, Polish women were granted the right to vote -
Women suffrage in Germany
Beginning in the mid-19th century, women achieved to change voting laws allowing them to vote. Germany created the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (founded in 1904 in Berlin, Germany), which is an ONG that promotes women's human rights around the world as well as for equal civil rights for women. -
Women suffrage in USA
In the USA, after nearly 100 years of protests and very hard campagnes with numerous Disagreements over strategy threatened to cripple the movement more than once; but finally women were able to vote on August 18, 1920, as well as declaring for the first time that women, just like men, deserve all the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. -
Women's suffrage in Spain
Women earned the right to vote in Spain in 1933 after changes of the law during the Second Spanish Republic. After Franco came to power in 1939, women lost many rights. However they did not lose their right to vote. Clara Campoamor was best known for her contribution for women's rights and suffrage during the writing of the Spanish Constitution of 1931.