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New Jersey
The first female suffrage was accidentally authorized (the word "people" was used instead of "men"), but it was abolished in 1807. -
Pitcairn Islands
Female suffrage (with the same characteristics as the male) was approved in the Pitcairn Islands (British Overseas Territory). -
Wyoming
Became the first state of US where "equal suffrage" (no gender differences), but not universal suffrage (dark-skin population was not allowed to vote). -
New Zeland
The first unrestricted female suffrage was passed in New Zealand, thanks to the movement led by Kate Sheppard. In any case, women were only allowed to vote but could not stand for election. Female ballots were adopted just weeks before the general election. -
South Australia and Tasmania
The first state to offer universal suffrage (and also to allow women to stand for parliamentary elections) was South Australia. And a year later, Tasmania. -
Finland, Norway and Switzerland
In Europe, women were able to exercise their right to vote for the first time in Finland, they even arrived to be on the parliament. A few years late Norway and Switzerland followed the same steps. -
Uruguay
Was the first country in America to approve women's suffrage, which was first issued on July 3, 1927 in the 'Cerro Chato' Plebiscite. -
Britain
After a long struggle of suffragism, the British were able to vote for the first time in equal rights with men on May 30, 1929, 137 years after the publication of the precursory text 'Vindications of the Rights of Women' by Mary Wollstonecraft. -
Spain
Women's right to vote was recognized in the 1931 Constitution, and the first time they could exercise that right was in the general elections of November 1933. During Franco's dictatorship the elections were obviously cancelled and with it, both male and female suffrage. Both female and male free votes were re-exercised in 1976 during the Spanish Transition.
