This kind of a female supporter, could been militant, of women's right to vote in the early 20th century.
A suffragette in London on a motorised scooter, 1916. Lady Florence Norman used her Autoped to scoot to her offices where she worked as an administrator in central London.
My grandfather's mother was one suffragette.
How was the Finnish suffrage reform achieved?
It has been assumed that suffragentts in Kuopio, exspecely writer Minna Canth (my grandfather's mother worked in hers shop) was a force behind the appeal that corresponded to the views of the liberal bourgeois women's right movement. Although the appeal was endorsed at the legal committee, the majority decided to reject it, which gave rise to a dissenting opinion being added to the decision.
The proposition of the Senate, issued for the 1904. Adoption of the eligibility to stand for election divided opinions, and not a single word was spoken of a unicameral Parliament.
However they got the all right to vote and to stand for election in Finland in 1906.
Finland was the third in the world and the first in Europe to give women the right to vote in 1906 as part of universal and equal suffrage.
At the same time, women were also allowed the right to stand for election, and in 1907 the world's first female parliamentarians were elected to parliament.
"For the first time, I am speaking to my sisters as a free woman,"
said Lucina Hagman in November 1906.
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