Apart from voting, April 25 1896 was also the day women got the right to govern – in a world first.
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A 19th-century volume contained a mystery for two historians who combined their knowledge to tell the story of the women and their contributions to American democracy.
Decades before most white Australian women were granted the right to vote, a businesswoman and single mother of four took to the polls and signed a ballot paper.
New research reveals that changes in attitudes led to Sinn Féin’s landslide victory – not the new surge of young voters.
While a record number of women are headed to Congress, a number of conservative measures passed across states. What explains this?
Not everyone won the vote in 1918, and not everyone is living their best life now.
Saudi Arabia is the most recent country to grant women the vote. Pakistan has some serious work to do. And Vatican City really needs to get with the programme.
The women’s suffrage campaign shows the advantages of petitioning, even when demands are rejected.
Sylvia Pankhurst’s book is the dominant narrative of the time, but was she unfair to her sister Christabel?
Research shows that married women tend not to relate as much to other women. This makes a big difference when a woman is on the ballot.
Clinton won women by 12 points and lost men by 12 – creating a 24-point ‘gender gap.’ While that’s the largest gender gap in history, the record shows that female voters were always different.
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Oregon State University
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Professor of Sociology, Florida State University
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Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego
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Regents Professor of History, University of Montana
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Emeritus Professor of Women's and Gender History, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Politics and Director of the Gender Research Centre, University of Bristol, University of Bristol
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Senior Research Fellow, Leverhulme Trust Rethinking Petitions project, Durham University
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Barrister and Human Rights Lecturer, Sheffield Hallam University
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PhD candidate, Durham University
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Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab, Podcast at MissPerceived, The University of Melbourne
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Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, Queen's University Belfast
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Historian, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
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Lecturer in Economics, Queen's University Belfast
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Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Tennessee