Women's suffrage refers to the right of a woman to vote in an election. This right was often not included in the original suffrage legislation of a state or country, resulting in both men and women campaigning to introduce legislation to enable women to vote. Actions included writing letters to newspapers and legislators, compiling petitions, holding marches and rallies and carrying out acts of violence. Women were on occasion arrested for these actions and held in jail, during which time some went on hunger strikes, refusing to eat for the duration of their incarceration.
Monuments and memorials to women's suffrage have been constructed around the world in recognition of the bravery and strength of the women who campaigned for voting rights, and the achievement of having the legislation passed.
| Name | Location | Year | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Statue of Emma Miller | Brisbane | 1993 | Commemorates the contribution of a leading suffragist | |
| Centenary of Western Australian Women's Suffrage Memorial | Perth | 1998 | Marks the centenary of women's suffrage in Western Australia | |
| Centenary of Women's Suffrage mural | Lake Grace | 1998 | Marks the centenary of women's suffrage in Western Australia | |
| Centenary of Women's Suffrage Gazebo | Kondinin | 1999 | Marks the centenary of women's suffrage in Western Australia | |
| Centenary of Women's Suffrage Commemorative Fountain | Canberra | 2003 | Marks the centenary of women's suffrage in Australia | |
| Resilience sculpture | Brisbane | 2007 | Marks the centenary of women's suffrage in Queensland | |
| Great Petition sculpture | Melbourne | 2008 | Marks the centenary of women's suffrage in Victoria |
| Name | Location | Year | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mural at Khartoum Place | Auckland | 1993 | Commemorates Auckland suffragists | |
| Kate Sheppard National Memorial | Christchurch | 1993 | Commemorates the lives of New Zealand's leading suffragists | |
| Puketapapa Women's Suffrage Memorial | Auckland | 2013 | Commemorates the local women suffragists of the community |
| Name | Location | Year | Artist | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annie's Arboretum | Eagle House, Batheaston | 1909–1913 (destroyed in the 1960s) | Emily and Colonel Linley Blathwayt | Commemorated c. 60 suffragists and suffragettes | |
| The Suffrage Oak | Glasgow | 1918 | Scottish suffragists | Oak tree planted to mark the passing of the Representation of the People Act 1918. | |
| Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst Memorial | London | 1930 | Arthur George Walker | Commemorates the lives of two leading suffragists | |
| Suffragette Memorial | London | 1970 | Lorne McKean and Edwin Russell with Paul Paget | Commemorates the bravery of the suffragists | |
| The Pankhurst Parlour | 1987 | Historical site and memorial | |||
| Sylvia Pankhurst (artwork) | London | 2011 | Commemorates the contribution of a leading suffragist | ||
| Alice Hawkins (statue) | Leicester | 2018 | Sean Hedges-Quinn | Commemorates the life of a leading local suffragist | |
| Millicent Fawcett (statue) | London | 2018 | Gillian Wearing | Commemorates the contribution of a leading suffragist | |
| Emily Wilding Davison (statue) | Morpeth | 2018 | Ray Lonsdale | A welded steel statue portraying the suffragette tipping over a bowl of food, in reference to her hunger strike | |
| Rise up, Women (Emmeline Pankhurst statue) | Manchester | 2018 | Hazel Reeves | Commemorates the suffragettes' leader in the city of her birth | |
| Annie Kenney (statue) | Oldham | 2018 | Denise Dutton | Commemorates the only working-class woman to hold a senior position in the suffragette movement | |
| Bessie Watson (memorial plaque) | Edinburgh | 2019 | Commemorates the youngest Scottish girl (age 9) in the suffragette movement |
| Name | Location | Year | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portrait Monument to Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony | Washington, D.C. | 1921 | Commemorates the lives of leading suffragists of the United States | |
| Statue of Esther Hobart Morris | Cheyenne, Wyoming | 1953 | Commemorates the life of one of Wyoming's leading suffragists | |
| Minnesota Woman Suffrage Memorial | Saint Paul | 2000 | Commemorates the women who campaigned for the state legislature to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, to give women the right to vote. Minnesota was the 15th state to ratify the amendment, doing so in 1919. | |
| Tennessee Woman Suffrage Memorial | Knoxville | 2006 | Commemorates the women who campaigned for the state legislature to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, to give women the right to vote. Tennessee was the final state to ratify the amendment, doing so in 1920. | |
| Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument | Washington, D.C. | 2016 | Commemorates the headquarters of the National Woman's Party, a key political organization in the fight for women's suffrage, and two of its leaders, Alva Belmont and Alice Paul. | |
| Women's Rights Pioneers Monument | New York, New York | 2020 | Commemorates Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, and all of the women involved in the women's suffrage movement. This is the first statue in Central Park representing historical women and was organized by Monumental Women. | |
| Stand | Lexington, Kentucky, near the intersection of Vine and Mill Streets | 2020 | Statue by Barbara Grygutis celebrating the 100th anniversary of the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The statue consists of the silhouettes of five generic, unnamed suffragists.[1] | |
| Turning Point Suffragist Memorial | Lorton, Virginia | 2021 | Monument to American suffragists that stands in close proximity to Occoquan Workhouse, a prison where 168 suffragists were held during the Silent Sentinels voting rights demonstrations in the late 1910s. | |
| On the Wings of Change | Chicago, Illinois | 2021 | Monument to suffrage leaders who worked in Chicago created by artist Diosa (Jasmina Cazacu) on the Wabash Arts Corridor. The ten women featured in the mural are: Jane Addams, Myra Bradwell, Mary Livermore, Catharine Waugh McCulloch, Agnes Nestor, Grace Wilbur Trout, Mary Fitzbutler Waring, Ida B. Wells, Frances Willard, and Fannie Barrier Williams.[2] | |
| Women's Suffrage National Monument | Washington, DC | TBD | Forthcoming monument authorized by a 2020 act of Congress. |