Statistics for Countries by Women's Suffrage

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  • This quiz has been taken 36 times
  • The average score is 10 of 18

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YearActivistsHintCountry% Correct
1971 (1991)1971 at federal level, 1991 at local canton levelSwitzerland
83%
1944Nicolas de CondorcetThe author of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (1791), Olympe de Gouges, was executed by guillotine.France
77%
1917Ariadna Tyrkova-WilliamsThe first major world power to grant women the right to vote.Russian Republic
77%
2015Wajeha Al-HuwaiderIn 2011, women were admitted to both voting and candidacy in the 2015 municipal elections. Men can only vote in municipal elections as well.Saudi Arabia
77%
1947Eva PerónArgentina
71%
1902Henrietta DugdaleThe first country to allow women to stand for Parliament. However, Indigenous men and women were disqualified from voting.Australia
71%
1893Kate SheppardThe first self-governing colony in the world in which all women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections.New Zealand
71%
1918 (1928)Emmeline PankhurstIn 1918, women at 30 with property or university qualifications could vote. Their rights were equalized in 1928.United Kingdom
66%
1920Carrie Chapman CattNationally granted the voting right to white men and women in 1920. Universal suffrage wasn't adopted until 1965.United States
66%
1906Mimmi KanervoFirst to grant complete universal suffrage, including for women and landless people.Grand Duchy of Finland
46%
1776 (1797)A U.S. state whose constitution gave vote to all inhabitants who had a certain level of wealth. Women's rights were clarified in 1797.New Jersey
46%
(1985-1999), 2005-Noureya Al-SaddaniAll voters must have been citizens for at least 20 years.Kuwait
40%
1946Universal suffrage was granted a year after the split from the following country, four years before their war.North Korea
40%
1948Universal suffrage was granted three after the split from the country above, two years before their war.South Korea
40%
1917 (1927)Paulina LuisiThe first country in all of the Americas to grant women fully equal civil rights and universal suffrage (firstly exercised in 1927).Uruguay
40%
1755-1769Pasquale PaoliThis country was revoked in 1769 as the French took over.Corsican Republic
31%
1918 (1922)Louie BenettIn 1918, women at 30 with property or university qualifications could vote. Their rights were equalized after the separation in 1922.Ireland
23%
1919Ethel Tawse JollieBlack males qualified for voting right in 1923, it is unclear when black women qualified for it.Southern Rhodesia
11%

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