womens+suffrage

Womens suffrage is the right of women to vote and run for office. The struggle for womens suffrage in America began in the 1820s with the writings of Fanny Wrightt. In her books course of popular lectures and in the Free Enquier, Wright not only advanced women being given the vote, but the abolition of slaves,free education,birth control and more liberal divorce laws. Limited voting rights were gained by some women in Sweden,Britain and some wastern U.S states in the 1860s. In 1893 the British colony of New zeland became the first nation to give voting rights to all adult women and women of nearby colony of South Australia achieved the same right in 1895 but became the first to obtain the right to run for parliment