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places where women could vote and how it happen

  • Norway

    Norway
    The suffrage movement in Norway was led by Gina Krog, who helped pioneer a law in 1901 that would allow some women to vote.
  • Finland

    Finland
    in 1906
    The country was previously called as the Grand Duchy of Finland. Women had enjoyed voting it became the first country in the world to also grant women the right to stand for parliament.
  • Den Mark

    Den Mark
    Parliament in Denmark began discussing women’s suffrage in 1886 although the right was limited to tax-paying women living in Copenhagen
    This led to the formation of the Women’s Suffrage Association, which held public meetings to discuss women’s rights and questioned parliamentary candidates about their views Denmark finally granted women suffrage in 1915.
  • Russia

    Russia
    Women had a difficult time obtaining the right to vote in Russia. Suffragists organized and rallied throughout the year 1917, even holding a march of over 40,000 attendees. The government finally relinquished and gave women the same voting rights as men on June 20, 1917.
  • New Zeland

    New Zeland
    Women getting the vote set the foundations for further steps towards gender equality in New Zealand Elizabeth Yates became the mayor of Onehunga, making her the British Empire’s first female mayor. However, women were not eligible to stand for parliament until 1919 and it was not until the 1933 by-election that the first female MP, Elizabeth McCombs, was elected and this inspire women to vote an to try to be a candidate.
  • Mexico

    Mexico
    At that historic meeting, the women gathered there demanded equality, education, and citizenship in order to build –together with the men in a responsible manner—a new Mexican society underpinned by progress, democracy, justice, and equality.
  • India

    India
    Traveling to history in 1917, when the lord Edwin Montage secretary of state for the foreign policy of India came to join viceroy, Lord Chelmsford to introducing constitutional reforms, India women see the opportunity to demand political rights, this led to the founding association of India (WIA) and 23 women's of different countries sign a document demanding women could vote in India and in1960 they could vote they work really hard for doe.
  • Australia

    Australia
    in 1902, and though it did apply to all women in the new country, aboriginal women were left out Aborigines, male and female, did not have the right to vote until 1962.
  • United states

    United states
    In the subsequent decades, a flurry, of political groups formed dedicated to individual issues around women’s rights Prominent examples included the League of Women Voters and the National Council The National Women’s Party, which was founded in 1913 drafted the Equal Rights Amendment It took until 22 March 1972 – almost half a century later – for the ERA to be passed by Congress and sent to the individual states for ratification.
  • United Kingdom

    United Kingdom
    It gave females the right to vote, but only if they were over the age of 30 all women over the age of 21 the right to vote.