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 * Women's suffrage** or **woman suffrage**[|[][|1][|]] is the right of women to [|vote] and to run for office. The expression is also used for the [|economic] and political [|reform movement] aimed at extending these rights to women[|[][|2][|]] and without any restrictions or qualifications such as property ownership, payment of tax, or marital status. The movement's modern origins can be attributed to late-18th century France, although full suffrage did not come to France or the French-speaking Canadian province of Quebec. Limited voting rights were gained by some women in Sweden, Britain, and some western U.S. states in the 1860s. In 1893, the [|British colony] of [|New Zealand] became the first self-governing nation to extend the right to vote to all adult women, and the women of the nearby colony of [|South Australia] achieved the same right in 1895 but became the first to obtain also the right to stand (run) for Parliament (women did not win the right to run for the New Zealand legislature until 1919).[|[][|3][|]][|[][|4][|]] The first European country to introduce women's suffrage was the [|Grand Principality of Finland] and that country, then a part of the [|Russian Empire] with autonomous powers, produced the world's first female members of parliament as a result of the [|1907 parliamentary elections].