Women´s suffrage

Women´s suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. In the beginning of the 18th century, some people sought to change voting laws to allow women to vote. Liberal political parties would go on to grant women the right to vote, increasing the number of those parties´ potential constituencies. National and international organizations formed to coordinate efforts towards women voting, especially the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (founded in 1904 in Berlin, Germany).

Many instances occurred in recent centuries where women were selectively given, then stripped of, the right to vote. In Sweden, conditional women´s suffrage was in effect during the Age of Liberty (1718–1772).