What is Women’s Suffrage?: What is Women’s Suffrage?
“The term women’s suffrage refers to an economic and political reform movement aimed at extending suffrage — the right to vote — to women. The movement’s aims were to promote and secure such rights. The movement’s origins are usually traced to the United States in the 1820s. In the following century it spread throughout Europe and the countries colonized by Europe. Today women’s suffrage is considered an uncontroversial right, although a few countries, mainly in the Middle East, continue to deny many women the vote. Women’s suffrage included the exclusion of women in university.” Quoted from Wikipedia Important Dates: Important Dates March 1891- Wearing white ribbons to symbolize purity, fifty Newfoundland women marched to the Colonial Building. They petitioned the members of the Government in St. John’s. They were fighting for the right for women to vote in local option contests. It took a total of thirty-four years before Newfoundland women would gain the right to vote and to be elec
