Woman Suffrage Association of New Zealand

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The Woman Suffrage Association of New Zealand was a leading late-19th-century organization that campaigned for women’s voting rights and helped make New Zealand the first self-governing country to grant women the vote.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf political advocacy group
women's suffrage organization
activeIn late 19th century
advocatedRight women's participation in civic life
women's voting rights in national elections
areaOfWork electoral reform
women's rights
associatedWith Woman Suffrage Association of New Zealand self-linksurface differs
surface form: New Zealand women's movement

temperance and social reform networks
campaignMethod pamphlets and printed materials
petitioning Parliament
press advocacy
public meetings
continent Oceania
country New Zealand
countryFirstToGrantWomenVote New Zealand
focusPopulation women in New Zealand
goal parliamentary enfranchisement of women
political equality for women
women's right to vote
historicalSignificance key organization in global history of women's suffrage
pioneering suffrage organization in the British Empire
ideology liberal feminism
influenced New Zealand Electoral Act 1893
issue democratic representation
gender equality in political rights
language English
legacy expanded political rights for women in New Zealand
model for later suffrage organizations worldwide
location Christchurch, New Zealand
surface form: Christchurch
movement first-wave feminism
women's suffrage movement
nonProfitStatus non-profit organization
notableAchievement contributed to New Zealand becoming the first self-governing country to grant women the vote
helped secure women's suffrage in New Zealand
operatedWithin Westminster system
surface form: New Zealand parliamentary system
operationalScope national
opposed legal exclusion of women from the franchise
politicalOrientation reformist
typeOfOrganization voluntary association
usedTactic lobbying legislators
mass signature collection

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women's suffrage movement hasKeyOrganization Woman Suffrage Association of New Zealand
New Zealand Electoral Act 1893 associatedWithMovement Woman Suffrage Association of New Zealand
this entity surface form: New Zealand women's suffrage movement
Woman Suffrage Association of New Zealand associatedWith Woman Suffrage Association of New Zealand self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: New Zealand women's movement