women's vote
Distaff electoral rights
Women's vote refers to the right of women to participate in elections, a concept central to the suffrage movements of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
It can also mean the collective voting behavior of women as a demographic bloc: Candidates are courting the women's vote in swing states.
Political analysts often discuss the women's vote as distinct from men's, particularly on issues like healthcare and reproductive rights.
- gender gapInequality between sexes
- suffragetteMilitant women's voting advocate
- gender equalityEqual treatment regardless sex
- equal payMatching compensation regardless of identity
- glass ceilingUnacknowledged limit blocking advancement
Seneca Falls Convention · enfranchisement · Susan B. Anthony · patriarchy · Elizabeth Cady Stanton · feminist politics · feminism · public opinion · civic engagement · ballot box · polling booth · political representation · ballot initiatives · workplace rights · intersectionality · polling place · nineteenth amendment · education access
- Voting Rightsenfranchisement, disenfranchisement, fair elections, poll taxes, literacy tests
- women's rightssuffrage movement, gender equality, feminism, suffragettes, reproductive rights
- Suffragesuffragette, suffrage movement, suffragettes, suffragists, suffragist
- 1930sNew Deal, Hitler, Nazi Germany, Great Depression, appeasement
- Interwar EraLeague of Nations, Weimar Republic, Treaty of Versailles, Treaty of Trianon, Versailles Treaty