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women's suffrage

vr.tr.women-s-suffrage · XCT.QLT

Let an agent describe women suffrage as a right and as a movement with sourced dates and facts by country, present history and interpretations with attribution, note exclusions and partial enfranchisements, and route current voting rights questions to electoral authorities.

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Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

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Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent describe women suffrage as a right and as a movement with sourced dates and facts by country, present history and interpretations with attribution, note exclusions and partial enfranchisements, and route current voting rights questions to electoral authorities.

The right of women to vote in elections, won in most countries between the late nineteenth and mid twentieth centuries through organised movements, and still restricted or recent in a few; the term also names the movements that campaigned for it, whose history includes petitions, civil disobedience and imprisonment, and whose outcomes differed by country and by which women were included.

What it is for: Political equality in voting.

It can be relay dates of enfranchisement by country with sources; explain the movements and their methods; note partial and staged enfranchisement; present interpretations with attribution.

Distinguishing features

Specific extension of suffrage

Organised movements

Staged and partial enfranchisement in many countries

Commemorated milestone

What it looks like

Not a visible object; seen in laws, campaigns and commemorations.

Physical character

first national enfranchisement: 1893 year - New Zealand

countries with full women suffrage: nearly all count - by the late twentieth century

How it is recognised

Right of women to vote and the movement for it

Dates and scope vary by country

Voting rights generally and women in politics are related entries

Related models

is a kind of - the right to vote

active suffrage

was won by - the campaigns

women suffrage movement

is part of - the wider struggle

women rights

is related to - the broader principle

universal suffrage

In practice

Families and kinds

women suffrage by country

suffragist and suffragette movements

partial enfranchisement by property, race or age

international suffrage organisations

suffrage in local and national elections

Standards and regulation

Constitutions and electoral laws granting the vote

Convention on the Political Rights of Women 1953

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

Failure modes and hazards

Citing a single date where enfranchisement was staged

Ignoring exclusions by race or property

Presenting contested interpretations as fact

Also called

women's suffrage in AustriaWomen's suffrage in New Jerseywomen's suffrage in Iranwomen's suffrage in Japanwomen's suffrage in the United Stateswomen's suffrage in the United Kingdomwomen's suffrage in New Zealandwomen's suffrage in Canadawomen's suffrage in Europewomen's suffrage in Peruwomen's suffrage in Mexicowomen's suffrage in Switzerlandwomen's suffrage in Central and Eastern Europe

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Right The right and its scope.

Definition.

Definition

Definition and scope.

Definition

Definition.

  1. What does women suffrage mean, and how did its scope vary by country and by which women were included? definition
  2. Is the question about the historical right, the movement or current voting rules? boundary

Dates

Dates by country.

Dates

Dates.

  1. When did women gain the vote in a given country, with stages and sources? provenance
  2. Which entry fits the specific country? action
Movement The movements.

History.

Organisations

Organisations and leaders.

Organisations

Organisations.

  1. Which organisations and leaders campaigned, and how? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

Methods

Methods and repression.

Methods

Methods.

  1. What methods did movements use, and how were they treated, as historians describe? provenance
  2. Is the presentation attributed? boundary
Interpret Interpretation and legacy.

Attribution.

Debates

Historiographical debates.

Debates

Debates.

  1. How do historians interpret the causes and outcomes, with positions attributed? provenance
  2. Is the presentation neutral? boundary

Legacy

Legacy.

Legacy

Legacy.

  1. How is women suffrage commemorated, and what later struggles followed? provenance
  2. Which entry fits women in politics? action
Today Current rights.

Present.

Current

Current status.

Current

Current.

  1. Where are women voting rights still restricted or recent, with sources? provenance
  2. Is the user asking how to vote now, which needs the electoral authority? boundary

Law

International law.

Law

Law.

  1. Which international instruments protect women political rights? provenance
  2. Which entry fits political rights? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should each country history be a separate entry?
  • How should electoral law sources be linked?
  • The registry entry has merged aliases for country histories; should they be split off?