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For the first time, Italian women were allowed to vote in a national election and run for a seat in the Constituent Assembly. This election was held concurrently with the 1946 Italian institutional referendum on the abolition of the monarchy.
The vote was allowed to all over 21, females being allowed to vote for the first time. Voters received both a ballot for the choice between Republic or Monarchy, and one for the election of the deputies of the new Constituent Assembly; the latter would have the task to write a new constitutional chart, as established by a decree of 16 March 1946.
Finland was also the first country in Europe to give women the right to vote. [6] [7] The world's first female members of parliament were elected in Finland the following year. In Europe, the last jurisdiction to grant women the right to vote was the Swiss canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden (AI), in 1991.
Women have been allowed to vote since 1919. Since 1917 women have been allowed to be voted into office. Netherlands Antilles (Today: Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Caribbean Netherlands) 1949 New Zealand: 1893 New Zealand was the first country to give women voting rights. Nicaragua: 1955 Niger: 1948 Nigeria: 1958 Norway: 1913 Oman: 2002 [102]
Near-final results Monday showed the center-right coalition netting 44% of the parliamentary vote, with Meloni's Brothers of Italy snatching 26% in its biggest win in a decade-long meteoric rise.
19 th Amendment. Women in the U.S. won the right to vote for the first time in 1920 when Congress ratified the 19th Amendment.The fight for women’s suffrage stretched back to at least 1848, when ...
The survey showed that in 2020 women made up almost 60% of graduates in Italy and the results, in terms of regularity in studies and graduation grades, are better for women: 60.2% of women complete their studies on time, compared to 55.7% of men and the average graduation grade is, 103.9 and 102.1/110, respectively.
The Comitato pro suffragio femminile (Committee for Women's Suffrage) was an Italian organization founded in 1905 in support of women's voting rights. [1] Among the most active participants were Anna Maria Mozzoni, Linda Malnati and Carlotta Clerici.