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Multiple women's movements started in 1910, which led to the plebiscite in 1937, where women voted for or against women's suffrage rights. Filipino women worked hard to mobilize and fight for women's suffrage in the early 1900s and gained victory after 447,725 out of 500,000 votes affirmed women's right to vote. [2]
On September 17, 1937, women's suffrage was legalized in the Philippines, after the required threshold for the plebiscite of 300,000 was surpassed. 447,725 women affirmed their aspiration to vote, against 33,307 no votes. [13] The Philippines was one of the first Asian countries to allow this right for women. [14]
Even as American women won the right to vote in 1920, women in the Philippines, then an American colony, were not accorded the same right. As early as 1919, Alzona spoke in favor of conferring the right of suffrage to Filipino women, in an article she published in the Philippine Review. [7]
Later, in her mid-30s, she led a movement in 1916 for Filipino women to secure the right to vote, founding the Liga Nacional de Damas Filipinas. It was in 1937 when women were able to gain the right after a referendum .
Netherlands (women gain the right to vote in an election, having been given the right to stand in elections in 1917) New Zealand (women gain the right to stand for election into parliament; right to vote for Members of Parliament since 1893) New Brunswick (Canadian province) (limited to voting. Women's right to stand for office protected in 1934)
19 th Amendment. Women in the U.S. won the right to vote for the first time in 1920 when Congress ratified the 19th Amendment.The fight for women’s suffrage stretched back to at least 1848, when ...
Sofia Tiaozon Reyes de Veyra (30 September 1876 – 1 January 1953) was an organizer of the first Filipino nursing schools and President of the National Federation of Women's Clubs which led the suffrage movement for women of the Philippines. She was a Filipina suffragette, social welfare worker, private secretary in the office of the President ...
Natividad Almeda-López (8 September 1892 – 22 January 1977) was a suffragist [2] and the first female lawyer in the Philippines, [3] passing the bar in 1914 and the first woman to defend a woman in a court of law. [4] [5] She was also the first female judge of the municipal court of Manila. She has been described as a "beacon in the feminist ...