How Filipino women won the right to vote 81 years ago

Over eight decades ago, only Filipino men with education and property were allowed to vote in elections.

But the right to suffrage denied to women became history in 1937, when the late Cebu Congressman Filemon Sotto's  suffrage bill, filed 30 years earlier in 1907, made it to the American-sponsored Philippine Assembly.

On April 30, 1937, extending suffrage rights to Filipino women was won in a national plebiscite.

The 81st anniversary celebration of the Women Suffrage Day in the Philippines will be commemorated on Monday, April 30, or two weeks before the May 14, 2018 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections.

Here are some historical milestones of the journey of Filipino women's right to suffrage.

—Jannielyn Ann Bigtas/LBG, GMA News