<P> In the 1792 elections in Sierra Leone, then a new British colony, all heads of household could vote and one - third were ethnic African women . </P> <P> The female descendants of the Bounty mutineers who lived on Pitcairn Islands could vote from 1838 . This right was transferred after they resettled in 1856 to Norfolk Island (now an Australian external territory). </P> <P> The seed for the first Woman's Rights Convention in the United States in Seneca Falls, New York was planted in 1840, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Lucretia Mott at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London . The conference refused to seat Mott and other women delegates from the U.S. because of their sex . In 1851, Stanton met temperance worker Susan B. Anthony, and shortly the two would be joined in the long struggle to secure the vote for women in the U.S. In 1868 Anthony encouraged working women from the printing and sewing trades in New York, who were excluded from men's trade unions, to form Workingwomen's Associations . As a delegate to the National Labor Congress in 1868, Anthony persuaded the committee on female labor to call for votes for women and equal pay for equal work . The men at the conference deleted the reference to the vote . In the U.S. women in the Wyoming Territory could vote as of 1869 . Subsequent American suffrage groups often disagreed on tactics, with the National American Woman Suffrage Association arguing for a state - by - state campaign and the National Woman's Party focusing on an amendment to the U.S. Constitution . </P> <P> In 1881 the Isle of Man, an internally self - governing dependent territory of the British Crown, enfranchised women property owners . With this it provided the first action for women's suffrage within the British Isles . </P>

When did the fight for women's right to vote began