WOMEN S SUFFRAGE IN NEW ZEALAND PROFESSOR GRIMSHAW PATRICIA

Women's suffrage in New Zealand was an important political issue in the late nineteenth century. In early colonial New Zealand, as in European societies, women were excluded from any involvement in politics. Public opinion began to change in the latter half of the nineteenth century, however, and after years of effort by women's suffrage campaigners, led by Kate Sheppard, New Zealand became the first self-governing colony in the world in which all women had the right to vote in parliamentary ele
Women's suffrage in New Zealand - Wikipedia
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Women's suffrage in New Zealand - Wikipedia
The struggle for women's suffrage. Women's suffrage was granted after about two decades of campaigning throughout New Zealand, by women who included Kate Sheppard and Mary Ann Müller. The New Zealand branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) led by Anne Ward was particularly instrumental in the campaign.
New Zealand was the first country to grant women suffrage
New Zealand was the first country in the world to grant women suffrage in 1893. Source: rook76/Shutterstock 125 YEARS ago today Aotearoa New Zealand became the first country in the world to grant