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Women's suffrage
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Women's suffrage

The international movement for Women's suffrage, led by suffragists and suffragettes, was a social, economic and political reform movement aimed at extending the suffrage (i.e. the right to vote) to women, advocating equal suffrage (abolition of graded votes) rather then universal suffrage (abolition of discrimination due to, for instance, race), which was considered too radical. A catch phrase was "one man, one vote!"

In 1869 the Wyoming Territory in the United States became the first modern polity where equal suffrage was extended to women. The earliest country extending that right was Australia in 1902. In 1906, Finland was the first country to introduce universal suffrage.


		


Table of contents 







1 Timeline

2 Countries without women's suffrage

3 Suffragists and suffragettes

4 Related topics

5 External links




Timeline

Women's suffrage has been granted (and been revoked) at various times in various countries throughout the world. In many countries women's suffrage was granted before universal suffrage, so women (and men) from certain races were still unable to vote.

The table below lists years when women's suffrage was enacted in various places. In many cases the first voting took place in a subsequent year. 


Countries without women's suffrage

Some countries do not extend suffrage to women, or extend it differently from to men (this list does not include countries where neither men nor women have suffrage):

Suffragists and suffragettes

See also: suffragette


Related topics


External links