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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 ...
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] The leaders were Jeanne Schmahl and Jane Misme. [9]
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 ...
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.
National Society for Women's Suffrage – Britain's first large suffrage organization, founded in 1867 by Lydia Becker. National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies – founded in 1897; Suffrage Atelier – artists' collective campaigning for women's suffrage. Women's Franchise League – major British group created in 1889 by Emmeline Pankhurst.
The campaign for women's suffrage started in 1923, when the women's umbrella organization Tokyo Rengo Fujinkai was founded and created several sub groups to address different women's issues, one of whom, Fusen Kakutoku Domei (FKD), was to work for the introduction of women's suffrage and political rights. [204]
Women's suffrage was introduced at the national level after a nationwide (male) referendum in 1971, but the referendum did not give women the right to vote at the cantonal level. Among the constituent states of the Old Swiss Confederacy , universal male suffrage is first attested in Uri in 1231, in Schwyz in 1294, in Unterwalden in 1309, and in ...
The National Union of Women Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), also known as the suffragists (not to be confused with the suffragettes) was an organisation founded in 1897 of women's suffrage societies around the United Kingdom. [1] [2] In 1919 it was renamed the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship. [citation needed]