British women won the right to vote 100 years ago after an intense struggle marked by a violent fringe campaign
Women Voting Rights articles on Democracy Chronicles
Women in the 21st century have a larger political role to play if they continue to identify and dismantle the barriers in the way of their political equality. As over half the population of the planet is female, ensuring women voting rights is key for any democracy. The Nineteenth Amendment giving women the right to vote across the United States was ratified in 1920 but government elections are still dominated by men. Also see our articles on Feminism, Minority Voting Rights or LGBT voting.
Honduran women protest against faulty presidential election
Hundreds of women protested Thursday in Honduras against Juan Orlando Hernandez, who is preparing to begin his second presidential term Saturday after winning November’s disputed vote. In commemorating the Day of the Honduran Woman, some 1,000 women protestors marched in Tegucigalpa, demanding leftist candidate Salvador Nasralla be declared the winner. Some carried crosses emblazoned with […]
Then and Now: Strategies for women activists and their foremothers
Modern-day counterparts to the strategies newly enfranchised female voters used in the 1920s to strengthen democracy
Kenyan Women Protest in Push For Constitutional Gender Rule
Hundreds of women marched through Nairobi on Monday to protest the president’s failure to name women to at least one-third of government positions, as Kenya’s constitution requires. Two weeks ago, President Uhuru Kenyatta unveiled a Cabinet shakeup, naming nine people for high-ranking government positions. Not one of the nominees was a woman. The president also […]
Together We RISE – Photos from the NYC Women’s March 2018
An estimated half-million people turned out to the protest to support women’s rights, reproductive rights, Black Lives Matter, Children’s Rights, to impeach and arrest Donald Trump and much more.
The incredible story of Liberia’s departing President Sirleaf
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who shared the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize as a champion of women’s rights, is stepping down after making history as Africa’s first elected female president in Liberia. Taking the reins of a nation that had just emerged from a civil war leaving an estimated 250,000 dead, Sirleaf will be remembered for maintaining […]
Why few Lebanese women make it into parliament
Lebanon is campaigning to get at least five times more women elected to parliament this spring in its first vote in nearly 10 years, the country’s first women’s affairs minister says. With diverse religious groups and women in prominent positions in the business world and the media, but female politicians unable to find their way […]
Women’s march in multiple cities focuses on electoral politics
Women and their allies again took to the streets this weekend in dozens of cities across the country
The Long Road of American Black Women to Political Power
Black women must be recognized beyond the times they turn out to vote
Pakistan allowing women to be barred from voting
It is disappointing that political parties in Pakistan consider themselves above those very same laws that comprise and constitute the work of legislators from their own party members sitting in Parliament. On 21st December, women voters in the Shahikhel Talash, Samarbagh and Darora tehsil councils were barred from voting during the local government by-elections, as […]