Question

What was the suffrage movement? What did it accomplish?

Answer 1

The suffrage movement refers to the women’s struggle to attain the right to vote. Women’s struggle to vote got strengthened during the First World War. As many men were away fighting, women were called upon to do work that was earlier considered to be men’s work. This led to the questioning of the many unfair stereotypes about women. Finally, after much struggle,the American women got the right to vote in 1920, while their counterparts in the UK attained this right in 1928. British colony of New-zealand was the first to grant women right to vote.