Kate Sheppard
Overview
Women's suffrage in New Zealand
Women's suffrage in New Zealand was an important political issue in the late 19th century. Of countries presently independent, New Zealand was the first to give women the vote in modern times....
movement, and is the country's most famous suffragette
Suffragette
"Suffragette" is a term coined by the Daily Mail newspaper as a derogatory label for members of the late 19th and early 20th century movement for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, in particular members of the Women's Social and Political Union...
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Unanswered Questions
Quotations
Is it right that your mother, your sister... should be classed with criminals and lunatics... ? Is it right that while the loafer, the gambler, the drunkard, and even the wife-beater has a vote, earnest, educated and refined women are denied it?... Is it right... that a mother... should be thought unworthy of a vote that is freely given to the blasphemer, the liar, the seducer, and the profligate?
Is it right? (1892)
All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome.
As quoted in Women, Politics, And Power : A Global Perspective (2007) by Melanie M. Hughes, p. 47