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28th November 1893: New Zealand women vote for the first time in a national election
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:02:49
Publish Date: 2017-11-27 21:05:30
Description: Every New Zealand woman over the age of 21 was able to vote in the world’s first general election in a self-governing colony. The issue of women’s suffrage in New Zealand began to gain momentum in the second half of the 19th century. Like in other countries, women in New Zealand had been excluded from political life. Drawing strength from the broader American and northern European movements for women’s rights, some of New Zealand’s leading suffrage campaigners argued that equal rights for women were necessary for the moral improvement of society. The New Zealand branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union ...
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