Editing Women's suffrage (section)

==== Jamaica ====

After women's suffrage had been introduced in Britain in 1918, white elite women organized in the [[Women's Social Service Club]] (also known as the [[Women's Social Service Association]] or WSSA) campaigned under the leadership of [[Nellie Latrielle]] and [[Judith DeCordova]] for the introduction of the reform on Jamaica from May 1918, and succeeded when limited suffrage for taxpaying women of property was introduced in May 1919.<ref>Bean,&nbsp;D.&nbsp;(2017).&nbsp;Jamaican Women and the World Wars: On the Front Lines of Change.&nbsp;Tyskland:&nbsp;Springer International Publishing.</ref>
The women's suffrage – as was male suffrage at the time – was, however, limited to a minority of women, and during the 1930s, women campaigned for universal women's suffrage via the [[Universal Negro Improvement Association]] (UNIA) the [[Jamaica Women's League]] (JWL) and the [[Women's Liberal Club]] (1936), until full suffrage was finally introduced in 1944.<ref>Clarke,&nbsp;C.,&nbsp;Nelson,&nbsp;C.&nbsp;(2020).&nbsp;Contextualizing Jamaica's Relationship with the IMF.&nbsp;Tyskland:&nbsp;Springer International Publishing.</ref>