My topic is about the legalisation of women voting and when it happened. Kate Sheppard is a very important women that was apart of the Women’s Suffrage New Zealand that made history.
On A website called NZ History, I learnt that on the 19th of September, 1893, a new Electoral act was introduced into the law in New Zealand. Kate Sheppard let the Women’s Suffrage, it became a social laboratory, and that achievement was a result of years of effort by suffrage campaigners. WSNZ was a very important political issue in the late nineteenth century, women excluded from any involvement in politics. But on 19 sep, 1893, the franchise was given royal assent by governor Lord Glasgow. This website was useful because
On a website called The Women’s Suffrage New Zealand I learnt what the WCTU was and what they did. WCTU stands for Women’s Christian Temperance Movement, led by Anne Ward. The WCTU travelled all around the country to collect signatures to gain a new act into the law, women voting. They organised petitions to parliament, and there were over 9,000 signatures delivered in 1891, then another 20,000 signatures in 1892 and then 32,000 signatures in 1893 - which was almost ¼ of New Zealand’s adult female population.
In conclusion, I have learnt that New Zealand was one of the first countries to add women voting into the law. I think that female suffrage is really important because Women need a purpose too and I think that schooling and education wouldn’t be as important to a women. Men would be the ones that end up with all of the jobs, and I think that women can have goals too and they should be aloud to fulfill them. I think it is outrageous that some counties in the world only made women voting legal only a couple of years ago, but I am proud to be in a fair country.
