Today, in 1922, the first general elections under the universal suffrage were held in the Netherlands. In the same elections, women were able to participate in the elections with full voting rights – a breakthrough after years of campaign for women suffrage.
Campaigns can be traced back to 1915 when 1,100 delegates convened at The Hague, Netherlands for the International Congress of Women to talk about women suffrage and pressing concerns about feminism at the time. In 1919, Henri Marchant submitted a draft bill for universal suffrage in which the House of Representatives voted in favor of