New Zealand was the first country in the world to grant women the vote. Kate Sheppard, leading light of the suffrage movement, was vindicated when 65% of New Zealand women took the chance to vote in their first general election.
Kate Sheppard
Personal details
Full Name:
Katherine Wilson Sheppard
Lifetime:
10 Mar 1847 – 13 Jul 1934
Biography
Events In History
19 September 1893
When the governor, Lord Glasgow, signed a new Electoral Act into law, New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world in which women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
Women Together
Canterbury Women’s Institute
The Canterbury Women's Institute (CWI) was one of the longest lived of the early feminist groups in New Zealand Read the full Women Together Essay
Main image: Suffrage petition, 1893
This is the first sheet of the Canterbury section of the huge 1893 suffrage petition, which was signed by more than 25,000 women.
