female suffrage

noun

: the right for women to vote : women's suffrage

Women's rights activists made the first organized call for female suffrage at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848.—Joseph Jones

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1803, in the meaning defined above

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“Female suffrage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/female%20suffrage. Accessed 26 Aug. 2026.

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