suffrage

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After college, Rankin became an advocate and organizer for the suffrage movement in several western states and New York.

From The Wall Street Journal

She went on not only to campaign for the fair treatment of her female colleagues but joined the fight for women's suffrage.

From BBC

She calls Sophia "an important bridge between Indian activists and white British activists for female suffrage".

From BBC

During the suffrage movement, women pushed baby carriages as they marched for the right to vote.

From Seattle Times

Those parts of the New World with more Europeans within the British Empire, for example, like North America, were more likely to develop and sustain democratic institutions like parliaments, with restricted suffrage of course.

From Salon