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Women's Suffrage

Author(s): Slobodanka Markov
Subject(s): Civil Society, Government/Political systems, Electoral systems, Sociology of Politics
Published by: CeSID
Keywords: right to vote; political right; women; women's movements; political freedom
Summary/Abstract: The right to vote is a political right that was of particular importance in the struggle of women and women's movements to gain political freedom during the 19th and in the first half of the 20th century, and it was understood as a path to economic and social equality. Women's struggle for universal and equal suffrage was arduous, long-lasting, filled with painful debates in parliaments and with male political elites, who, more or less openly, denied women the right to vote and delayed granting it to them. That long struggle was crowned with significant results only in the first half of the 20th century. The finale, however, was after the Second World War, when women in almost all countries of the world got that right. Today, women's right to vote in the sense of formal law is understood as a civilizational asset and a sign of democratic societies, as one of the specific characteristics of modern societies that separates them from earlier historical periods.

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