Womens Right to vote effects of 19th amendment

Running Head : 19th Amendment

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Introduction

Women 's suffrage is a term that refers to political and reform movement aimed at extending suffrage i .e . the right of women to vote . The origin of these movements lies in France in the 18th century (Wheeler Spruill , 1995 . New Zealand was the first independent country to give women right to vote . When New Zealand gave women right to vote in 1893 it was by then a self governing colony . Other regions with similar status as

New Zealand which gave women right to vote before New Zealand included Wyoming in 1869 . Other contenders for the first country included Tavolara , France Ville , the Pitcairn Island , the Isle of Man and the Corsican republic (Wheeler Spruill , 1995 . However some of these were not independent and others had brief existence as independent states (Wheeler Spruill , 1995 . Currently women 's suffrage is considered as a right under the convention adopted by the united nation (UN ) in 1979 on the elimination of all kinds of women discrimination However despite the adoption by the United Nations there are few countries especially in the Middle East that still denies women the right to vote (Frost-Knappman Cullen-DuPont , 2005

The 19th amendment

Throughout the world women 's suffrage has been granted in various countries often at different times . In several countries women 's suffrage was granted before the universal suffrage and therefore women of ethnic social and racial classes were still unable to vote (Wheeler Spruill , 1995 . On...