Women In Our Society: Women's Rights, Empowerment, And Social Progress

Poland 2019 Universal Suffrage Centenary
The stamp shows Gabriela Balicka (1871-1962), a Polish botanist and the leading activist of the National Women's Organization.

Lithuania 2018 Universal Suffrage Centenary
The stamp celebrates the 1918 Interim Constitution which granted the right of women to vote in Lithuanian elections.

Jersey 2018 Votes for Women - 100 Years
The stamp set highlights women's suffrage efforts and achievements from 1897 to 1919.

From Soviet Union : FDIF issues

FDIF=Fédération Démocratique Internationale des Femmes (Women's International Democratic Federation)
This communist-leaning organization was founded in Paris in 1945

Stamps from 1958


Stamp + stationery envelope from 1960



Stamp from 1970

FDIF again.
Stamps + FDCs from East Germany (1955) and Czechoslovakia (1965)

Austria 2019 Centenary of Women's Suffrage
The montage style souvenir sheet marks the first free and equal elections by women and men in 1919 for the Constituent National Assembly.

Belgium 2021 Women in Politics Centenary
Left: Marie Janson First Female Belgian Senator
Right: Female Suffrage in Municipal Elections Centenary

Andorra (Spanish Administration) 2020 50th Anniversary of Women's Suffrage
The minisheet depicts women's suffrage efforts and ballot box.

Mexico 2013 60th Anniversary of Women's Suffrage
The stamp depicts women at ballot box.

Colombia 1962 – 1964 Women's Political Rights
The stamps marks the 10th anniversary of the recognition of women's political right by the Constituent Assembly of Colombia.

Malta,1975
Women's International Year
1c3 & 5c : mother and child
3c & 20c : office secretary

Ukraine,2013
Olha Kobylianska (1863-1942) was an Ukrainian modernist writer and feminist


Pictures of Olha Kobylianska can be found also on Soviet Union issues

Stamp from 1963


Stationery envelope from 1988


Monument to Olha Kobylianska in Chernivtsi (Czernowitz),1987

Japan
10 April 1971 / 25th Anniversary of Women's Suffrage / design: Takao Yamanouchi



I didn't know that until 1946 women didn't have right to vote in Japan... and this stamp is designed by a man (woman stamp designer doesn't exist up to late 1980s).

Thank you KuoLC and other contributors, for me to start learning on this subject. Great one!

France,1993
Louise Weiss (1893-1983) was a french feminist author,journalist and politician

Finland was the first country to do that; but as to the vote, it was second. New Zealand allowed women to vote (not hold office) beginning in 1893.



Kate Sheppard was the leading light of the New Zealand women's suffrage movement. In recent years her contribution to New Zealand's identity has been acknowledged on the $10 note as well as the 2008 stamp shown above. She died on 13 July 1934, a year after the first woman MP, Labour's Elizabeth McCombs, entered Parliament.