Access to the right to vote for women around the world
Image of a map showing the date of women's access to the vote for each country.
Here are some 50 countries that have granted women the right to vote. First of all, the first communities to fight for women's suffrage were islands:
1838 :
Pitcairn Island
1881 :
Man Island
1893 :
Cook Island
1893
New Zealand
In 1893, New Zealand became the first self-governing state to grant women the right to vote nationally.
1902
Australia
1906
Finland
1913
Norway
1915
Denmark
1917
Russian Federation
1918
Estonia
Austria
Canada
Latvia
Germany
Hungary
Lithuania
Georgia
Poland
1919
Sweden
Netherlands
Iceland
Belarus
Ukraine
Luxembourg
1920
United States of America
The states ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, giving women the right to vote, passed by Congress on 4 June 1919. In Tennessee, the state legislature ratified this amendment to the constitution with only one majority vote.
1921
Czech Republic
Armenia
Azerbaijan
1925
Egypt
1928
United Kingdom
In 1918, British women were given the right to vote from the age of 30 (men could vote from the age of 21). Equality was established ten years later, when women were allowed to vote from the age of 21 in 1928.
Ireland
1931
Spain
1932
Brazil
1934
Turkey
1944
France
On 21 April 1944, General de Gaulle granted French women the right to vote. A century had passed since the introduction of universal male suffrage in 1848.
1948
Belgium
Romania
1952
Greece
1953
Mexico
1958
Algeria
1960
Cyprus
1962
Monaco
1970
Andorra
1971
Switzerland
1976
Portugal
1984
Liechtenstein
1991
Moldova
2015
22 governments are headed by women: Germany, Liberia, Argentina, Bangladesh, Lithuania, Trinidad, Brazil, Kosovo, Denmark, Jamaica, Sid Korea, Slovenia, Cyprus, Senegal, Norway, Latvia, Central Africa, Chile, Malta, Poland, Switzerland, Croatia
