WOMEN VOTE THROUGH THE YEARS By Jonathan Zamora Palacios 1893 New Zealand was the first country to allow women to vote 1903 Australia 2nd country to grant vote to women 1918 Austria, Germany, Poland, Russia grants the right to vote 1920 The United States finally began allowing women to vote in 1920 1928 Britain last year celebrated 100 years of right of women to vote 1947 Argentina, Japan, Mexico, Pakistan grant the right to vote to women 1965 Voting Rights Act guaranteed the right to vote regardless of race. 2005 Kuwait grants the right of women to vote 2006 United Arab Emirates grants the right to vote to women 2011 King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia granted women the right to vote in 2011.