Timeline of women's suffrage liberty between 1718 and 1772. The Australian Commonwealth Franchise Act of 1902 enabled women to vote at federal elections and also permitted women to stand for election to the Australian Parliament, making the newly-federated country of Australia the first in the modern world to do so. In 1906, the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland, which became the republic of Finland, was the second country in the world to implement both the right to vote and the right to run for office. Finland was also the first country in Europe to give women the right to vote. The world's first female
Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women since 1882 in Massachusetts. The committee started publishing a journal, "The Remonstrance", in 1890. The journal's articles by women were published anonymously while a male editor was used in the first few years. The first committee spent most of its time collecting signatures for anti-suffrage petitions called "remonstrances." In 1895, a bill, called the Wellman bill, to give women municipal suffrage in Boston was put to a popular vote and women who were involved in the anti-suffrage movement in Massachusetts felt they had to create a formal organization. The Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women