She also was the original GOP national committeewoman from New Jersey in the early 1920s following adoption of the women's suffrage amendment.

* 1920 – The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage.

The Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932 forced Vargas to enact a new democratic constitution that permitted women's suffrage.

However, by 1920 all Western European and North American democracies had universal male suffrage ( except Switzerland ) and many countries began to consider women's suffrage.

Meanwhile, Newson ’ s malting business expanded and five more children were born, Alice ( 1842 ), Millicent ( 1847 ), who was to become a leader in the constitutional campaign for women's suffrage, Sam ( 1850 ), Josephine ( 1853 ) and George ( 1854 ).

Garrett Anderson was also active in the women's suffrage movement.

Douglass actively supported women's suffrage.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton asked the assembly to pass a resolution asking for women's suffrage.

Fascist women's organizations, disgruntled at the lukewarm reforms, were then made subordinate to the secretariat of the party, headed by Roberto Farinacci, although gradual women's suffrage was retained.

In the nineteenth century, anti-feminism was mainly focused on opposition to women's suffrage.

Even before Léon, some liberals had advocated equal rights for women including women's suffrage.

A member of the Socialist Party of America and the Industrial Workers of the World, she campaigned for women's suffrage, labor rights, socialism, and other radical left causes.

* 1915 – Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.

He invited women to participate in the political process at a time when women's suffrage was new to Africa.

On November 9, 1882, Baum married Maud Gage, a daughter of Matilda Joslyn Gage, a famous women's suffrage and radical feminist activist.

Much of the politics in the Republican Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer dealt with trying to convince the populace to vote for women's suffrage.

This was a progressive magazine aimed at tolerance and integration for Jews in Saxony, as well as for the emancipation of women with articles on women's education and suffrage.

Social progressivism is another common feature of the modern Left, particularly in the United States, where social progressives played an important role in the abolition of slavery, women's suffrage, civil rights, and multiculturalism.

* 2005 – Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote.

Margaret's father, Michael Hennessy Higgins, was a Catholic who became an atheist and an activist for women's suffrage and free public education.

One of Mitchell's most vivid memories of her mother was a women's suffrage rally led by Carrie Chapman Catt.

Zahir Shah was able to govern on his own in 1963 and despite the factionalism and political infighting a new constitution was introduced in 1964 which turned Afghanistan into a modern democratic state by introducing free elections, a parliament, civil rights, women's rights and universal suffrage.

In the late 1970s, the Continuing Anglican movement produced a number of new church bodies in opposition to women's ordination, prayer book changes, and the new understandings concerning marriage.

She suggests this explains the low numbers of black women who participated in the feminist movement in the 1970s, pointing to Louis Harris ' Virginia Slims poll done in 1972 for Philip Morris that she says showed 62 percent of black women supported " efforts to change women's status " and 67 percent " sympathized with the women's rights movement ", compared with 45 and 35 percent of white women ( also Steinem, 1972 ).

" In a speech given to the Norwegian Women's Rights League in 1898, Ibsen insisted that he " must disclaim the honor of having consciously worked for the women's rights movement ," since he wrote " without any conscious thought of making propaganda ," his task having been " the description of humanity.

FBI records show that 85 % of COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed " subversive ," including communist and socialist organizations ; organizations and individuals associated with the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and others associated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Congress of Racial Equality and other civil rights organizations ; black nationalist groups ; the American Indian Movement ; a broad range of organizations labeled " New Left ", including Students for a Democratic Society and the Weathermen ; almost all groups protesting the Vietnam War, as well as individual student demonstrators with no group affiliation ; the National Lawyers Guild ; organizations and individuals associated with the women's rights movement ; nationalist groups such as those seeking independence for Puerto Rico, United Ireland, and Cuban exile movements including Orlando Bosch's Cuban Power and the Cuban Nationalist Movement ; and additional notable Americans — even Albert Einstein, who was a member of several civil rights groups, came under FBI surveillance during the years just prior to COINTELPRO's official inauguration .< ref >

The women's movement had a strong influence, much of it emanating from the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp.

Although the counter-demonstration attracted half a million participants, the movement for change started in 2000 was influential on King Mohammed VI, and he enacted a new Mudawana, or family law, in early 2004, meeting some of the demands of women's rights activists.

Douglass ' support for the 15th Amendment, which failed to give women the vote, led to a temporary estrangement between him and the women's rights movement.

Seneca Falls and the origins of the women's rights movement.

* Interface: a journal for and about social movements special issue ( 3 / 2: November 2011 ) " Feminism, women's movements and women in movement ".

Feminism has driven the creation of a considerable body of action-oriented science fiction with female protagonists: Wonder Woman ( actually originally created in 1941 ) and The Bionic Woman during the time of the organized women's movement in the 1970s ; Terminator 2 and the Alien tetralogy in the 1980s ; and Xena, Warrior Princess, comic book character Red Sonja and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Back in England, however, he found his movement sharply divided among provincial Friends ( such as William Rogers, John Wilkinson and John Story ) who resisted establishment of women's meetings and the power of those who resided in or near London.

The women's rights movement succeeded in gaining for many women the right to vote.

: When women in the movement use herstory, their purpose is to emphasize that women's lives, deeds, and participation in human affairs have been neglected or undervalued in standard histories.

" During the post-Civil War years, there was a rise in the establishment of public libraries, a movement led chiefly by newly formed women's clubs.

Lesbian-feminism was a youth-oriented movement: its members were primarily college educated, with experience in New Left and radical causes, but they had not seen any success in persuading radical organizations to take up women's issues.

In more recent times the women's liberation movement is closely connected to the New Left and other new social movements that challenged the orthodoxies of the Old Left.

Although a counter-demonstration attracted half a million participants, the movement for change started in 2000 was influential on King Mohammed, and he enacted a new Mudawana, or family law, in early 2004, meeting some of the demands of women's rights activists.

The Beguines were mainly a women's movement and had previously been recognized by the Church since their foundation in the thirteenth century as mystics.

The JMU women's field hockey gave the university their first national title in 1994.

The gritty Warner image of the 1930s gave way to a glossier look, especially in women's pictures starring Davis, de Havilland, and Crawford.

The relative scarcity of women gave them many opportunities to do many more things that were not " normally " considered " women's work " of this era.

In October 1847, Lucy Stone gave her first public speech on the subject of women's rights, entitled The Province of Women, at her brother Bowman Stone's church in Gardner, Massachusetts.

Davis ' version gave the Seneca Falls meeting in 1848 a minor role, equivalent to other local meetings that had been held by women's groups in the late 1840s.

He gave the prayer of invocation and roasted the UConn Huskies women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma.

His mother told him she gave birth to Hank in the women's restroom at Yankee Stadium during Cotton's failed attempt to assassinate Fidel Castro during a rare American visit.

In October 1847, she gave her first public speech on the subject of women's rights, entitled The Province of Women, at the invitation of her brother Bowman Stone, to speak at his church in Gardner, Massachusetts.

Stone went with her daughter to Chicago in May, 1893 and gave her last public speeches at the World's Congress of Representative Women where she saw a strong international involvement in women's congresses, with almost 500 women from 27 countries speaking at 81 meetings, and attendance topping 150, 000 at the week-long event.

The voting franchise had been extended to all adult males in 1907 and women's suffrage gave them the same rights in 1921.

Though with the state winning in shorter hours for women, and the popular progressives being happy with the outcome, equal-rights feminists were against this because it worked so heavily on the separation of the sexes into two stereotyped gender-roles and restricted women's financial independence. This labor law gave women more protection however it excluded women of color, food processors, agricultural workers, and white collar educated women.

Marti also gave his support to the women's suffrage movements, and was " pleased that women here advantage of this privilege in order to make their voices heard ".

In 1895 she was awarded her first diploma and gave a speech on women's inequality, a subject often lectured on by the Quakers at White's, that received high praise from the local paper.

In 1961, Brandeis University awarded her its Creative Arts Medal for outstanding lifetime achievement and the women's division of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University gave her its Achievement Award.

On 5 November and 28 December 2007 Constantine and Woodall appeared on Good Morning America and performed makeovers on three women for the show and gave style advice according to the women's shapes.

After the 1920s, women's underwear shortened in accordance with shorter skirt lengths, whilst comfort and durability gave way to fashion and sophistication.

He established a National Society for Women's Suffrage, drafted the Women's Disabilities Removal Bill ( the first women's suffrage bill in England ) and was author of the bill which became the Married Women's Property Act ( 1882 ) which gave wives absolute control over their property and earnings.

The news coverage of this event gave her much attention, and the fact that she travelled to many countries worldwide with the Globetrotters, helped women's professional teams from many different parts of the world take notice.

The first woman of any color to speak on political issues in public, Stewart gave her last public speech in 1833 before retiring from public speaking to work in women's organizations.

Smith, however, was intent on establishing a coordinate, nonsectarian women's college, which, when realized, coincidentally gave Hobart access to new facilities and professors.

He gave recitals for women's groups and appeared in society theatricals, usually for little or no pay.

Carrie Chapman Catt ( January 9, 1859 – March 9, 1947 ) was a women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which gave U. S. women the right to vote in 1920.

For many conservative women, the Bureau's focus on maternal and child welfare gave them a role in politics for the first time -- something that the suffrage or women's rights movements had not offered them.

Tauziat wrote a book with the title " Les Dessous du tennis féminin " ( published in 2001 in French ) in which she gave her insights about life on the women's professional tennis circuit.