Suffragettes

women participants in the movement to obtain voting rights for women. The movement gained prominence in Great Britain, the USA, Germany, and several other countries in the second half of the 19th and the early 20th century. The suffragettes, particularly in Great Britain, made wide use of obstructive tactics and noisy demonstrations. In 1904 an international organization was founded—the International Women Suffrage Alliance, which in 1946 became the International Alliance of Women—Equal Rights—Equal Responsibilities. Lacking the support of working women, the suffragette movement was bourgeois in nature and had no widespread political results. The movement came to an end after World War I, when women in a number of countries won the right to vote as a result of the revolutionary struggle of the working people.