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Women's Suffrage summary: The women's suffrage movement (aka woman suffrage) was the struggle for the right of women to vote and run for office and is part of the overall women's rights movement. ... In 1888, the first international women's rights organization formed, the International Council of Women (ICW).
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Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Beginning in the late 19th century, women worked for broad-based economic and political equality and for social reforms, and sought to change voting laws in order to allow them to vote.
In 1848, a group of abolitionist activists—mostly women, but some men—gathered in Seneca Falls, New York to discuss the problem of women's rights. They were invited there by the reformers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.
Women vote today because of the woman suffrage movement, a courageous and persistent political campaign which lasted over 72 years, involved tens of thousands ofwomen and men, and resulted in enfranchising one-half of the citizens of the United States. For women won the vote.
The woman's suffrage movement is importantbecause it resulted in passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which finally allowed women the right to vote. The woman suffragemovement has promoted human welfare in numerous ways.
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