{"id":275548,"date":"2023-12-29T19:14:49","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T13:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=275548"},"modified":"2023-12-29T19:14:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T13:44:49","slug":"on-womens-suffrage-womens-vote-achieved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/on-womens-suffrage-womens-vote-achieved\/","title":{"rendered":"On Women\u2019s Suffrage \u2013 Women\u2019s vote achieved"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source:<\/strong> This post on Women\u2019s Suffrage has been created based on the article \u201cWomen\u2019s vote achieved: We need faster progress\u201d<\/strong> published in \u201cLive Mint\u201d<\/strong> on 29th<\/sup> December 2023.<\/p>\n

UPSC Syllabus Topic: <\/strong>GS Paper 1 Society \u2013 Role of women and women\u2019s organization.<\/p>\n

News:<\/strong> The article discusses history of the women\u2019s suffrage movement and the need to move beyond just granting the right to vote to women.<\/p>\n

Recently, 5 religious sisters were allowed to vote at the Papal advisory body in the Roman Catholic Church, which has been male-dominated for centuries. With this historic move, Vatican City became the last country in the world<\/strong> to give its women the right to vote.<\/p>\n

What has been the history of the women\u2019s suffrage movement?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The initial women’s suffrage movement emerged during the 19th and early 20th centuries<\/strong>, predominantly led by protest voices in the Anglosphere (English-speaking world).<\/strong><\/p>\n

129 countries<\/strong> granted women the right to vote between 1893 and 1960<\/strong>. Some nations tried to place riders on it by using race, age, education level or marital status as a disqualifier, but these were largely discarded.<\/p>\n

1) Role of Social Activism: <\/strong>At first, it was other forms of social activism that gave rise to the vote demand.
\nFor instance:
\na. New Zealand <\/strong>in 1893 became the first nation to let women vote in national elections. It was a fight against alcohol<\/strong> that moved women to seek a role in policymaking.
\nb. <\/strong>In USA,<\/strong> which did it in 1920, suffrage activism can be traced back to protests led by women against slavery<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

2) Role of World Wars:<\/strong> The suffrage movement gained pace after World War I, at least in the West. The two World Wars hurried the enfranchisement of women.<\/p>\n

What more needs to be done in the field of women\u2019s political empowerment?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

This right has not yet shaken patriarchal social structures that dominate power politics. Hence, the focus must now shift to achieving proper representation in rule-making and governance<\/strong>, which goes beyond the basic right to vote.<\/p>\n

Despite progress in women\u2019s participation in politices, their impact in shaping political decisions and policies worldwide are yet to enhance and transform the state of affairs globally..<\/p>\n

Question for practice:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Women\u2019s suffrage movement played an important role in emancipation of women in the political sphere. Discuss its features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: This post on Women\u2019s Suffrage has been created based on the article \u201cWomen\u2019s vote achieved: We need faster progress\u201d published in \u201cLive Mint\u201d on 29th December 2023. UPSC Syllabus Topic: GS Paper 1 Society \u2013 Role of women and women\u2019s organization. News: The article discusses history of the women\u2019s suffrage movement and the need… Continue reading On Women\u2019s Suffrage \u2013 Women\u2019s vote achieved<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9,1286],"tags":[263,10506,264],"class_list":["post-275548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","category-society","tag-gs-paper-1","tag-livemint","tag-society","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":4,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703882453},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}