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Women's suffrage: London demonstrators Suffragettes holding signs in London, c. 1912.

women’s suffrage

Also known as: woman suffrage
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women’s suffrage, the right of women by law to vote in national or local elections. Women were excluded from voting in ancient Greece and republican Rome, as well as in the few democracies that had emerged in Europe by the end of the 18th century. When the franchise was widened, as it was in the United Kingdom in 1832, women continued to be denied all voting rights. The question of women’s voting rights finally became...

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