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=Women's Suffrage= The battle for women's suffrage began later in Australia than in the U.S and Britain, but success was achieved earlier.

The campaigns for women's suffrage date back from in the early 1800's.New Zealand women were the first in the world to gain the right to vote at an election in 1893. Australian women (excluding aborigines) were given power for the new Commonwealth Parliament in 1901. Women firlst voted in the election in 1903. The women were not allowed to vote in state elections until the end of the First World War in 1914. The Australian aboriginal women were given suffrage in 1962. The Australian women's suffrage society was formed in 1889. The aims were obtained to give women fair rights.

In 1848 the first Women's Rights Conference was in Seneca Falls, New York, U.S.A. In 1894 South Australia gave voting rights to women. In 1905 the British Newspaper used the term suffragettes to insult the women who were fighting for the vote but the women were delighted to have the matter opened. In 1909 force feeding started for the women who were not eating to protest the matter of the voting. In 1913 Emily Davison leapt under the king's horse and died fighting for the right to vote. Force feeding also ended. In 1918 British women over 30 get the right to vote. In 1935 Myanmar women get the right to vote. In 1939 El Salvador women get the right to vote. In 1946 Myanmar women can stand for election. In 1950 Canadian women gain the vote In 1953 Mexican women can stand for election. In 1960 Sirimavo Bandaranaike is the first women prime minister In 1963 federal equal pay act in America. In 1970 equal pay act in Britain In 1972 Australian women get equal pay In 1973 equal pay in New Zealand And in 1994 Black South African women gain the vote Now many women all over the world have the right to vote. By Veronica H. and Gaby H.