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Timeline of Women’s Suffrage
Granted, by Country
Learn the year in which women's suffrage was granted, organized by year. New Zealand was the first country to allow women to vote (in 1893), while the United Arab Emirates is the most recent addition to this list, adding women's suffrage in 2006. The United States finally began allowing women to vote in 1920, after the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. Saudi Arabia is the only country that still does not allow its women to vote.
- 1893 New Zealand
- 1902 Australia1
- 1906 Finland
- 1913 Norway
- 1915 Denmark
- 1917 Canada2
- 1918 Austria, Germany, Poland, Russia
- 1919 Netherlands
- 1920 United States
- 1921 Sweden
- 1928 Britain, Ireland
- 1931 Spain
- 1944 France
- 1945 Italy
- 1947 Argentina, Japan, Mexico, Pakistan
- 1949 China
- 1950 India
- 1954 Colombia
- 1957 Malaysia, Zimbabwe
- 1962 Algeria
- 1963 Iran, Morocco
- 1964 Libya
- 1967 Ecuador
- 1971 Switzerland
- 1972 Bangladesh
- 1974 Jordan
- 1976 Portugal
- 1989 Namibia
- 1990 Western Samoa
- 1993 Kazakhstan, Moldova
- 1994 South Africa
- 2005 Kuwait
- 2006 United Arab Emirates
NOTE: One country does not allow their
people, male or female, to vote: Brunei.
1. Australian women, with the exception of aboriginal
women, won the vote in 1902. Aborigines, male and female, did not have
the right to vote until 1962.
2. Canadian women, with the exception of
Canadian Indian women, won the vote in 1917. Canadian Indians, male and
female, did not win the vote until 1960. Source: The New York
Times, May 22, 2005.
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