Woman Suffrage

Woman Suffrage

Woman Suffrage in some Countries

Introduction to Woman Suffrage

Meanwhile and subsequently most of the other nations of the world enacted woman-suffrage legislation. Among the first to do so were the following, each of which granted the franchise to women before the mid-20th century: New Zealand (1893); Australia (1902); Finland (1906); Norway (1913); Denmark (1915); the Netherlands and the Soviet Union (1917); Canada and Luxembourg (1918); Austria, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic and Slovakia), Germany, Poland, and Sweden (1919); Belgium (partial, 1919; full, 1948); Ecuador (1929); South Africa (1930); Brazil and Uruguay (1932); Turkey and Cuba (1934); France (1944); Italy and Japan (1946); China and Argentina (1947); South Korea and Israel (1948); Chile, India, and Indonesia (1949). Switzerland granted the franchise to women in 1971. By the 1980s, women could vote virtually everywhere in the world, except for a few Muslim countries. As of mid-2005, when women in Kuwait won suffrage, women could vote in all countries where men could vote except Saudi Arabia. Women who attained national leadership posts in modern times include prime ministers Golda Meir of Israel, Indira Gandhi of India, and Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan, and presidents Corazon Aquino and Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo of the Philippines, Mary Robinson of Ireland, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro of Nicaragua, Megawati Sukarnoputri of Indonesia, Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga of Sri Lanka, and Vaira Vike-Freiberga of Latvia.” (1)

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