| 单词 | women's suffrage |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswomen's suffrage women's suffrage n. (also with capital initial) the right of women to vote in political elections; frequently attributive.In the United Kingdom, women over the age of 30 were granted the right to vote in 1918 and gained equal voting rights to men 10 years later. In the United States, sex-based restriction of voting rights was prohibited in 1920, with the ratification of the 19th amendment to the constitution. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [noun] > of women female suffrage1803 womanhood suffrage1843 woman suffrage1846 women suffrage1846 women's suffrage1868 1842 People's Democratic Guide I. Index p. viii Young Women's Suffrage Association.] 1868 Times 11 May 10/4 A branch of the National Society for Women's Suffrage. 1870 M. G. Fawcett in Fortnightly 1 May 623 Another argument..urged against women's suffrage is, that a woman is so easily influenced, that if she had a vote it would practically have the same effect as giving two votes to her nearest male relation. 1918 Times 11 Feb. 3/6 Services of thanksgiving for the granting of the vote to women were held yesterday..by the Church League for Women's Suffrage. 1991 M. Mackie Gender Relations Canada viii. 219/1 Women's organizations as the Women's Christian Temperance Union played an important role in the Women's Suffrage Movement. 2002 Time 1 Apr. 62/1 Today..we have both chocolate martinis and women's suffrage, ‘grrrl power’ and a variety of tasty wine. < as lemmas |
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