Personal details
Full Name:
- Katherine Wilson Sheppard
Lifetime:
- 10 Mar 1847–13 Jul 1934
Biography
New Zealand was the first country in the world to grant women the vote. Kate Sheppard, leading light of the suffrage movement, was vindicated when 65% of New Zealand women took the chance to vote in their first general election.
Read more...Events In History
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19 September 1893Women win the right to voteWhen the governor, Lord Glasgow, signed a new Electoral Act into law, New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world in which women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections. Read more...
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Main image: Kate Sheppard’s House
Kate Sheppard's home during the eventful years of the suffrage movement.
