Women’s suffrage in Switzerland and NZ

[HamPieQueen]

My daughter is doing an EPQ on the cultural conditions surrounding women getting the vote in Switzerland (pretty late to the party from what I understand) and NZ (early adopters)

I don’t want to do the work for her - she’s very keen to do the research herself - but can anyone recommend any books that might be a good starting point that she could order from the library?

Thanks very much

(btw I am a regular user and regular name changer - I haven’t just arrived here asking for things 😁)

I think NZ was the first country in the world to allow us to vote.
I think Switzerland was the last. My grandmother says when she was there in the late 1960s women there couldn't vote because apparently it was like a Catch 22 situation.
They do everything by referendum and every time they had a referendum on "should women vote?", it was obviously only men who could vote Yes or No! (And you can guess which way they voted.)

I can't help with books, but I watched a brilliant musical called "That Bloody Woman" last year, about the Kiwi suffragette Kate Sheppard, and I bawled my eyes out. Had to go back for a second viewing. What a fight she had.

This might be a good one to try?
https://aotearoabooks.co.nz/the-womens-suffrage-petition-te-petihana-whakamana-poti-wahine-1893/

Isn't it Kanton-dependent in Switzerland? So even within Switzerland there is a difference when women got suffrage. I remember faintly a referendum in one Kanton, possibly Appenzell, towards the end of the 20th century and it was reported as the last Kanton where women didn't have the right to vote.

These are brilliant - thank you! I’ll point her in the direction of the political structures in both countries. Having the name of one of the leading suffragettes in NZ is really helpful too.