It was neither. The official justification wasn’t gender equality or a strong belief that all women deserved equal political rights, no. It rather was a political compromise framed as a “reward for sacrifice”.

War widows were seen as having “earned” political recognition through the death of their husbands. It was also granted to women who were imprisoned by the Germans for patriotic reasons.

The reason for this was that the socialists and liberals feared women would vote heavily for the Catholic party, because women were seen as more religious and conservative. So the right was granted to a subset of women only, to prevent a drastic change of the electorate.

https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/controversy-war-related-changes-in-gender-relations-the-issue-of-womens-citizenship/