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Year women first granted suffrage at national level Notes Afghanistan: 1919 [67] Elections were abolished in 1929 Albania [68] 1945 Albanian women voted for the first time in the 1945 election. Algeria: 1962 In 1962, on its independence from France, Algeria granted equal voting rights to all men and women. Andorra: 1970 Angola: 1975 Argentina
The demand for women's suffrage began to gather strength in the 1840s, emerging from the broader movement for women's rights. In 1848, the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention, passed a resolution in favor of women's suffrage despite opposition from some of its organizers, who believed the idea was too extreme. [3]
1870: The Utah Territory grants suffrage to women. [7]1870: The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is adopted. The amendment holds that neither the United States nor any State can deny the right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude," leaving open the right of States to deny the right to vote on account of sex.
Later that year Leigh Smith Bodichon formed the first Women's Suffrage Committee and within a fortnight collected nearly 1,500 signatures in favour of female suffrage in advance to the second Reform Bill. [15] The Manchester Society for Women's Suffrage was founded in February 1867.
The first female MPs in the world were elected in Finland in 1907. Grand Duchy of Finland (An autonomous state ruled by the Russian Empire) (first in Europe to give women the right to vote and stand for parliament as a result of 1905 Russian Revolution). [6] [7] The world's first female members of parliament were elected in Finland the ...
Marguerite Anne Newburgh Cole (November 28, 1897 – December 22, 1987) was an American who became the first woman to vote in the United States.She and other women were officially granted the right to vote after certification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had been passed by the U.S. Congress in 1919 and then ratified by thirty-six U.S. states as of August ...
A key event was the first women's rights convention, the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, which was initiated by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. [1] Women's right to vote was endorsed at the convention only after a vigorous debate about an idea that was controversial even within the women's movement.
The ideals of women's suffrage developed alongside that of universal suffrage and today women's suffrage is considered a right (under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women). During the 19th century, the right to vote was gradually extended in many countries, and women started to campaign for their right ...