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The French Union for Women's Suffrage (UFSF: French: Union française pour le suffrage des femmes) was a French feminist organization formed in 1909 that fought for the right of women to vote, which was eventually granted in 1945. The Union took a moderate approach, advocating staged introduction of suffrage starting with local elections, and ...
Jeanne Schmahl visiting the French Premier Aristide Briand in 1909. The French Union for Women's Suffrage (UFSF: Union française pour le suffrage des femmes) was founded by a group of feminists who had attended a national congress of French feminists in Paris in 1908. [9] Most of them were from bourgeois or intellectual backgrounds. [10]
In 1909, French noblewoman and feminist Jeanne-Elizabeth Schmahl founded the French Union for Women's Suffrage to advocate for women's right to vote in France. Despite some cultural changes following World War I , which had resulted in women replacing the male workers who had gone to the front, they were known as the Années folles and their ...
The French Union for Women's Suffrage (UFSF) was founded by a group of feminists who had attended a national congress of French feminists in Paris in 1908. [12] Most of them were from bourgeois or intellectual backgrounds. [13] The leaders were Jeanne Schmahl and Jane Misme. [12] The founding meeting of 300 women was held in February 1909.
Maria Vérone (1874–1939) – feminist, suffragist, women's rights activist; Louise Weiss (1893–1983) – writer, feminist, politician, suffragist; Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger (1853–1924) – proponent of pronatalism and alcoholic abstinence, president of the French Union for Women's Suffrage
Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger (20 January 1853 – 23 October 1924) was a French campaigner for pronatalism, alcoholic abstinence, and feminism.She was the president of the French Union for Women's Suffrage (Union française pour le suffrage des femmes / UFSF) movement. [1]
Dublin Women's Suffrage Association – major Irish organization. [11]Irish Women's Franchise League – founded in 1908, more radical than the Dublin Association. [12]Irish Women's Suffrage Society – founded by Isabella Tod as the North of Ireland Women's Suffrage Society in 1872, it was based in Belfast but had branches in other parts of the north.
Poster of conferences organized by the Women's Union for the League of Nations. The Women's Union for the League of Nations (French: Union Féminine pour la Société des Nations) was a French women's organization which was founded in 1920 by the French Union for Women's Suffrage as a basis for ensuring representation of women's interests at the League of Nations.