female suffrage
Women's ballot rights
Female suffrage is the right of women to vote in political elections.
The term appears most often in historical contexts, referring to movements that secured voting rights for women in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: The Nineteenth Amendment granted female suffrage in the United States.
Also called women's suffrage.
- Seneca Falls Convention1848 women's rights assembly
- glass ceilingUnacknowledged limit blocking advancement
- FeminismWomen's equality advocacy
- Equal Rights AmendmentProposed constitutional sex-equality guarantee
- right to voteLegal power to elect
Susan B. Anthony · Elizabeth Cady Stanton · ballot box · polling station · International Women's Day · voting rights · Sojourner Truth · hunger strike · picket line · protest march · civil disobedience
female suffragepatriarchy
Male-dominated social order
female suffrageanti-feminism
Opposition to gender equality
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