A new exhibit at the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum explores how Alva Belmont’s tea parties helped spark revolutionary conversations about women’s suffrage.

Local organizations are inviting guests to learn how Painesville was involved in the movement for women’s voting rights. The Painesville Suffrage Trolley Tour is set to run from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m ...

Well, our society doesn't let five-year-olds vote," Webbon explained in a May podcast. He added that "a woman is like a child" and that "God has appointed men to protect them." ...

In 1867, a proposal to give women the vote based on the equal rights of men was rejected in Parliament. In the years that followed, women’s suffrage campaigns and groups throughout the British Isles ...

The campaign for women’s suffrage or right to vote began in York in the middle of the 19th century when Emma Frith, Agnes Smith and Ann Swaine were three of the 1,499 signatories of a petition ...

The progress did not stop there. In 1986, Rosemary Karpinsky became the first woman to serve as President of Congress, and Victoria Garron was appointed Vice-President of the Republic. In 2010, Costa ...

The WSPU, with its slogan ‘Deeds, not words’, became the most notorious of the women’s suffrage groupings, some one thousand of its members being imprisoned from 1905 to the outbreak of the First ...

Passionate about women's rights, in 1903 the suffragettes of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) split from the suffragists of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) to ...

They were generally opposed to women’s suffrage, but so were the saloon owners. So were people in mining towns who believed that women, once given the vote, would pass temperance laws," Balik said.

On Women's History Month, Adrija Roychowdhury digs deep into the life of Margaret Cousins, an Irish suffragist who fought hard for women's voting right in India. She drafted the first demand for women ...