what was the suffrage movement? what did it accomplish?
Women's suffrage or woman suffrage[1] is the right of women to vote and to run for office. Limited voting rights were gained by women in Sweden, Britain, Finland and some western U.S. states in the late 19th century.[2] International organizations were formed to coordinate efforts, especially the International Council of Women (1888) and the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (1904).[3] In 1893, New Zealand became the first nation to extend the right to vote to all adult women; at the time the country was a self-governing British colony. The women in the self-governing British colony of South Australia achieved the same right in 1894 but became the first to obtain the right to stand (run) for Parliament (the Australian colonies federated in 1901, and women's suffrage achieved nationwide from 1902[4][5]; at the time Australia was still not fully independent of Britain[6]). The first European country to introduce women's suffrage was the Grand Duchy of Finland—then a part of the Russian Empire with autonomous powers—which also produced the world's first female members of parliament as a result of the 1907 parliamentary elections. The first fully sovereign state to extend voting rights to women was Norway in 1913.