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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.
The focus turns to working at the state level. Wyoming renewed general women's suffrage, becoming the first state to allow women to vote. [6] [3] [8] 1890: A suffrage campaign loses in South Dakota. [6] 1893: After a campaign led by Carrie Chapman Catt, Colorado men vote for women's suffrage. [6]
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]
Learn about the history of voting rights in America, including when women were allowed to vote and why voter access is still an important issue today.
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 ...
Nevada and Montana women earn the right to vote. [23] 1917. Women in Arkansas earn the right to vote in primary elections. [23] Women in Rhode Island earn the right to vote in presidential elections. [28] Women in New York, Oklahoma, and South Dakota earn equal suffrage through their state constitutions. [28] 1918
One hundred years after getting the right to vote, women make up just 23.7% of Congress, less than in many other developed countries.
In Switzerland, women's suffrage was introduced at the federal level, by a nationwide (male) referendum in 1971, but the referendum did not give women the right to vote at the local Cantonal level. The Cantons independently voted to grant women the right to vote. The first Canton to give women the right to vote was Vaud in 1959.