Women winning the vote, and being able to vote, have a say, and take part in the world has provided women to have the leadership roles that they didn't have back in the days. This has had a long term impact on women and men as today our world is seen differently, to what it would have been expressed back before the right to vote for women. These women below were the first to experience, and help have a significance, and impact on today's world. On 19 September 1893, Governor Lord Glasgow, signed a new Electoral Act into law, thus New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world to grant the right to vote to all adult women. This therefore had a major impact on New Zealand even though there were many other democracies did not allow women to vote till decades later.
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Women Councillors: As a start to showing that women had equal right to men many women took part as members of the local council and
boards. They served as councilors advising regional and district councils,
city councils and community boards. They were responsible for proving their communities
with good facilities such as roads, footpaths, parks, playgrounds, and future developments
of housing and other community goods.
When Others Voted: New Zealand may have been the first country to vote but many women around the world didn't get the privilege to vote until after few years later. Women in South Australia got the vote in 1894 and those in the rest of the country on 1902. The right for all America women to vote was not granted until 1920, women in Britain were not allowed to vote until 1918 even then women had to be over 30 and had to be householders or married to householders. It was until 1928 before the rest of the women aged 21 and over could vote. But a lot of big countries did not let women vote until after the Second World War which was in 1939-1945 e.g Japan, France, and Italy. Unfortunately there are still many countries who don’t let women vote, and also some men.
Freedom: To women freedom was more then just getting the right to vote, it meant that women could have a say in the world and they had more equal rights, e.g able to get a education, and liberty. Women first voted for parliament in the general election in 1893. Over 100,000 women registered as voters, but only 70% of them voted. This meant that men in parliament had to think about what women wanted before they made, or they would be voted out by women. After winning the vote, women felt confidence in themselves, they organised more meetings regarding other serious issues such as where alcoholics could receive treatment etc. They also began to think about their needs to become more united. On the 19th of September of 1894 was the first anniversary of women’s suffrage. Today women have a lot of say in life and are more to express themselves.
More Equal Rights: "The vote for women was widely argued for on the basis that women would purify politics and improve behavior in parliament by voting in good men."- book
The first medical women graduates were Emily Siedeberg in 1896, 1897 Margaret Cruickshank, Constance Frost in 1900, Jane Kinder, Daisy Platts, Alice Woodward, and Jessie Maddison. The first Maori doctor was Rina Ropiha in 1948 who worked as a psychiatrist. This is relevant because women could not get any education; women who went further in medical studies became doctors who worked with children as it was considered acceptable employment for women doctors.
In 1942 women won the Women Jurors Act this act allowed women over 25 to sit in Jurors. the first women to sit in a juror was Miss Kingston where she sat a case of house breaking in 1943, only two women had served, and an estimated of 39 women nationally were enrolled. By 1963 women has the same compulsory basis as men for jury service in 1976. That year was the same year that it had finally become equal under the law. Whetu Marama Tirikatene- Sullivan was the first Maori women to hold a portfolio when she became Minister of Tourism in 1972. she was also a city councilor of Auckland in 1913.
When Others Voted: New Zealand may have been the first country to vote but many women around the world didn't get the privilege to vote until after few years later. Women in South Australia got the vote in 1894 and those in the rest of the country on 1902. The right for all America women to vote was not granted until 1920, women in Britain were not allowed to vote until 1918 even then women had to be over 30 and had to be householders or married to householders. It was until 1928 before the rest of the women aged 21 and over could vote. But a lot of big countries did not let women vote until after the Second World War which was in 1939-1945 e.g Japan, France, and Italy. Unfortunately there are still many countries who don’t let women vote, and also some men.
Freedom: To women freedom was more then just getting the right to vote, it meant that women could have a say in the world and they had more equal rights, e.g able to get a education, and liberty. Women first voted for parliament in the general election in 1893. Over 100,000 women registered as voters, but only 70% of them voted. This meant that men in parliament had to think about what women wanted before they made, or they would be voted out by women. After winning the vote, women felt confidence in themselves, they organised more meetings regarding other serious issues such as where alcoholics could receive treatment etc. They also began to think about their needs to become more united. On the 19th of September of 1894 was the first anniversary of women’s suffrage. Today women have a lot of say in life and are more to express themselves.
More Equal Rights: "The vote for women was widely argued for on the basis that women would purify politics and improve behavior in parliament by voting in good men."- book
The first medical women graduates were Emily Siedeberg in 1896, 1897 Margaret Cruickshank, Constance Frost in 1900, Jane Kinder, Daisy Platts, Alice Woodward, and Jessie Maddison. The first Maori doctor was Rina Ropiha in 1948 who worked as a psychiatrist. This is relevant because women could not get any education; women who went further in medical studies became doctors who worked with children as it was considered acceptable employment for women doctors.
In 1942 women won the Women Jurors Act this act allowed women over 25 to sit in Jurors. the first women to sit in a juror was Miss Kingston where she sat a case of house breaking in 1943, only two women had served, and an estimated of 39 women nationally were enrolled. By 1963 women has the same compulsory basis as men for jury service in 1976. That year was the same year that it had finally become equal under the law. Whetu Marama Tirikatene- Sullivan was the first Maori women to hold a portfolio when she became Minister of Tourism in 1972. she was also a city councilor of Auckland in 1913.
the universal declaration of human rights:
THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS APPLY TO EVERYONE INCLUDING WOMEN.
-All humans are born free and equal in dignity and rights
- Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
- Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
- Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
- Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
- Everyone who works has the right to just and favorable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
- Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free; at least in the elementary and fundamental stages Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
- Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
-All humans are born free and equal in dignity and rights
- Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
- Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
- Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
- Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
- Everyone who works has the right to just and favorable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
- Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free; at least in the elementary and fundamental stages Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
- Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
Today our 21st century society is much more relaxed, we accept differences and alternatives much more then what they did back in the days. People now generally agree that everyone should be treated equally, no matter what their colour, sex or ethnic origin is...