suffrage

Examples of suffrage in the following topics:

• The Spread of Liberal Democracy

  • Liberal democracy requires universal suffrage, competitive politics, and the rule of law and is currently the dominant world political ideology.
  • Liberal democracies also usually have universal suffrage, granting all adult citizens the right to vote.
  • In Canada, responsible government began in the 1840s and in Australia and New Zealand parliamentary government elected by male suffrage and secret ballot was established from the 1850s and female suffrage achieved from the 1890s.

• Gender and Social Movements

  • The feminist movement refers to a series of campaigns on issues pertaining to women, such as reproductive rights and women's suffrage.
  • The feminist movement refers to a series of campaigns for reforms on issues such as reproductive rights, domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay, women's suffrage, sexual harassment and sexual violence.
  • It focused on de jure (officially mandated) inequalities, primarily on gaining women's suffrage (the right to vote).
  • If first-wavers focused on absolute rights such as suffrage, second-wavers were largely concerned with other issues of equality, such as the end to discrimination.

• The Political Participation of Women

  • Women's political participation has increased due to landmark events—women's suffrage and the election of women to public office.
  • Women's suffrage in the United States was achieved gradually, at state and local levels, during the 19th century and early 20th century, culminating in 1920 with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

• Democracy in the U.S.

  • In the United States, suffrage is nearly universal for citizens 18 years of age and older.
  • In the United States, suffrage is nearly universal for citizens 18 years of age and older.

• The Conflict Perspective

  • Conflict between the two groups caused things like the Women's Suffrage Movement and was responsible for social change.

• Capitalism

  • The extension of universal adult male suffrage in 19th century Britain occurred along with the development of industrial capitalism, and democracy became widespread at the same time as capitalism, leading many theorists to posit a causal relationship between them—claiming each affects the other.

• The Feminist Perspective

  • At the turn of the century, the first wave of feminism focused on official, political inequalities and fought for women's suffrage.

• Gender Inequality in Politics

  • Women's suffrage, the movement to achieve the female vote, was won gradually at state and local levels during the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
  • Women's suffrage took a back seat to the Civil War and Reconstruction, but America's entry into World War I re-initiated a vigorous push.

• Democracy

  • The right to vote has been expanded in many jurisdictions over time from relatively narrow groups (such as wealthy men of a particular ethnic group), with New Zealand the first nation to grant universal suffrage for all its citizens in 1893.

• Women as a Minority

  • Issues commonly associated with notions of women's rights include, though are not limited to, the rights to: bodily integrity and autonomy; vote (suffrage); hold public office; work; fair wages or equal pay; own property; be educated; serve in the military or be conscripted; enter into legal contracts; and to have marital, parental, and religious rights.