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10 Surprising Statistics about the History of the Women's Rights Movement Worldwide (Information taken from www.policimic.com)

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  • Right to stand for election

    Right to stand for election
    1. Women could stand for election in the United States in 1788, but the first woman wasn't elected until 1917.
    2. Today, all women can stand for election in all nations except in Serbia, Montenegro, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

  • Right to Vote

    Right to Vote
    1. 1902: Australia was the first place where women received the right to vote.
    2. 1906: Finland became the second country to grant women the vote
    3. Zimbabwe, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Ireland, Iceland, Latvia, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Austria, Hungary, Georgia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Estonia, and Belarus all gave women the right to vote before the United States.
    4. 1920. In USA were able to vote.

  • First Woman Elected

    First Woman Elected
    1. 1907 In Finland
    2. 1911: In Norway
    3. 1917: In The United States
    4. A woman has never been elected in Latvia, Serbia, Montenegro, Afghanistan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, The United Arab Emirates, Oman, the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria, United Republic of Tanzania, Somalia or North Korea.