Articles related to "Women Vote"

Exit polls show that Obama's emphasis on women's issues helped to bring him victory In the U.S. presidential election of 2008.

The suffrage movement in Canada was established in 1878. Dr Emily Stowe launched an aggressive campaign seeking the same provincial and federal electoral rights as men.

Esther Pohl Lovejoy's quest for Oregon women's rights in 1912 engaged men and women through the Everybody's Equal Suffrage League, mass advertising and public relations.

Flora MacDonald Denison (1867-1921) was an original: suffragist, journalist, radical believer in free love and birth control, and fan of spiritualism and Walt Whitman.

Improvements in working conditions began to take shape as more and more workers joined unions. The concerns were long hours, child labor, and safety issues.

In 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment assured freed slaves the right to vote. At that time a woman's right to vote was still not universal.

Travel to New Zealand, Land of the Long White Cloud, to tour a panorama of crystal clear lakes, snow-capped mountains, magnificent ski slopes and unspoiled wilderness

The First State's senior senator will run for vice president together with the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.

In 1893, the New Zealand Government passed legislation giving women the right to vote and became the first country in the world to do so, a fact not widely appreciated.

Based on US Census projections the Republican Party needs to add Hispanic voters in order to have the numbers needed to regain a strong voice in decades to come.

Women who are single, divorced or widows are often breadwinners for their families yet are only paid 56 cents to every dollar earned by a married man.

When the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1920, American women won the right to vote. This was a hard-won victory.

Inaccurate polls in New Hampshire led to the media refraining from using polls in Nevada. Now the media is trying again to call the South Carolina Democratic Primary.

Shopping for women is never easy. Luckily this list of the Top 10 Christmas Gifts for Women is here to help. Any one of these gifts is sure to make her smile.

Women in the UK have voted the push-up bra as the greatest fashion invention of our time. Closely followed by boot-cut jeans and another wardrobe weapon, magic pants.