GREAT BRITAIN.
Efforts for Parliamentary Franchise1012-1037
Household suffrage for men proves a disadvantage to women — Primrose League and Liberal Federation — Women in politics — Vote on Suffrage Bill in 1886 — Nineteenth Century and Fortnightly Review open their columns to a discussion — Parliamentary tactics in 1891 to defeat the Bill — Vote in 1892 shows opposing majority of only 17 out of 367 — Great efforts of women in 1895-6 — Petition of 257,796 presented — In 1897 the Bill passes second reading by majority of 71 — Kept from a vote since then by shrewd management — Its friends and its enemies — Franchise given to women in Ireland — Efforts of wage-earning women — Death of Queen Victoria.
Laws Specially Affecting Women1021
Guardianship of Children, Property Rights of Wives, etc.
Laws Relating to Local Government1022
Municipal Franchise for Women of England, Scotland and Ireland — Women on school boards, county councils, poor-law boards, etc. — Deprived of seats in borough councils.
Women in Public Work1023
On Royal Commissions, as factory, school and sanitary inspectors.
Steps in Education1024
Admission to Universities and opening of Woman's Colleges.
The Isle of Man1025
Full Suffrage granted to women.
New Zealand1025
Steps for the Parliamentary Franchise — Granted in 1893 — Statistics of woman's vote.
South Australia1027
As above — Granted in 1894.
West Australia1029
As above — Granted in 1899.
New South Wales1029
As above — Granted in 1902.
Victoria1031
Efforts for Parliamentary Franchise.
Queensland1032
As above.
Tasmania1033
As above.
South African and Other Colonies1033
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Dominion of Canada1034
Efforts for Parliamentary Franchise — Present political conditions — Municipal and School Suffrage in the various Provinces — Right of women to hold office.