plebiscite in 1937, where women voted for or against women's suffrage rights. Filipino women worked hard to mobilize and fight for women's suffrage in...

Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. At the beginning of the 18th century, some people sought to change voting laws to allow women...

Women's suffrage – the right of women to vote – has been achieved at various times in countries throughout the world. In many nations, women's suffrage...

held that women were to gain suffrage provided 300,000 women would affirm the same desire at the ballot. On September 17, 1937, women's suffrage was legalized...

on women's suffrage. The goal was finally achieved in the 1937 Philippine women's suffrage plebiscite. Kathleen Nadeau, Sangita Rayamajhi Women's Roles...

and run for office after the approval of the 1937 Philippine women's suffrage plebiscite. Assumed office after winning special election held on March...

the term "suffrage" is also associated specifically with women's suffrage in the United States; a movement to extend the franchise to women began in the...

although it would be many years before its usage became general. Women's suffrage was adopted, and the economy recovered to its pre-Depression level...

was the last ARMM election. After the approval of the Bangsamoro in a plebiscite, there was a transition period, and the first Bangsamoro election is expected...

resolved by women in a plebiscite. If at least 300,000 women voted for the right to vote, it would be granted. The plebiscite was held on 30 April 1937; there...

qualified women in a special plebiscite. The Philippine women's suffrage plebiscite held on 30 April 1937 was a landslide victory for women. Felix married...

1937, the women in the Philippines were first granted the right to vote through the Women's Suffrage Bill (which was approved in a special plebiscite...

Setting the Date of April 30, 1937, for the Plebiscite of the Constitutional Amendments pertaining to Women's Suffrage Commonwealth Act No. 39 – Charter...

Filipino women were finally extended universal suffrage following a special, all-female plebiscite held on April 30, 1937, where 447,725 women voted favorably...

in law school. In 1937, the right of suffrage was extended to Filipino women after a law allowing the same was approved via plebiscite. Elections for the...

drafting of the Philippine Constitution (June 10, 1934). On December 14, 1935, women were given the right to vote (Women's suffrage). The event most...

This is a timeline of Philippine history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the Philippines and its predecessor...

registered voters. In direct initiative, the proposition is put directly to a plebiscite or referendum, also called a popular initiated referendum or citizen-initiated...

whole archipelago following the Spanish–American war, suppressing the Philippine Revolution that had continued after the end the end of Spanish administration...

She has also urged women to protect their right to vote, reminding them of the plebiscite on April 30, 1937, that allowed women to participate in the...

In a 1982 plebiscite, voters indicated interest in seeking commonwealth status. The island has been considering another non-binding plebiscite on decolonization...

Prohibition movements in the West coincided with the advent of women's suffrage, with newly empowered women as part of the political process strongly supporting...

declared the State religion of Fascist Italy. In March 1929, a nationwide plebiscite was held to publicly endorse the Treaty. Opponents were intimidated by...

pro-democratic position, advocating land reform, and demanding universal suffrage. Under its successive editors Alexandru Beldiman and Constantin Mille,...

the Philippines to the United States in 1898. Through the subsequent Philippine–American War and later actions, the United States established effective...

woman candidates, as well as the first elections in Europe where universal suffrage is applied. July 24: Japan–Korea Treaty of 1907. August: The Anglo-Russian...

scheduled municipal elections of April 1931, which were considered a plebiscite on the Monarchy. Urban voters had lost faith in the monarch and voted...

It also promised the introduction of direct, equal and universal suffrage for all women and men from the age of 20 years, the eight-hour workday and improvements...

began resisting their taxes in response. The British women's suffrage movement, in particular the Women's Tax Resistance League, used tax resistance in their...

women, with New Zealand and Australian parliaments granting women's suffrage in the 1890s. However, by 1914, only a dozen U.S. states had given women...