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    1. First country in Europe = Finland (1906)

      Latest country in Europe = Liechtenstein (1984)

      Most countries have reliable information on: [https://data.ipu.org/historical-women/](https://data.ipu.org/historical-women/)

      Additional sources (because I found sources to be conflicting):

      Albania – Limited women’s suffrage was granted in 1920, and women obtained full voting rights in 1945.

      Belarus – Under Soviet administration women in Belarus were granted universal suffrage on 4 February 1919, when Belarus was a part of the USSR.

      Ex-Yugoslavia (Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia) – Women’s universal national suffrage was granted in Yugoslavia on August 11, 1945.

      Bulgaria – Bulgaria’s journey toward women’s suffrage was marked by gradual progress, with full and equal voting rights finally achieved on October 17, 1944.

      Czechia & Slovakia – Women gained universal national suffrage in Czechia and Slovakia (as part of Czechoslovakia) on February 29, 1920, when the constitution was adopted.

      Finland – Universal suffrage has been Finnish law since 1906, when Finland became the first European country to recognise women’s right to vote.

      Lithuania – The first provisional Constitution of Lithuania, adopted on November 2, 1918, included the principle of universal suffrage for women.

      Moldova – Women’s universal national suffrage in Moldova was first guaranteed in 1978 under Soviet administration.

      Norway – Women’s universal national suffrage in Norway was granted on June 11, 1913.

      Russia – Women in Russia obtained universal suffrage in 1917 under the Provisional Government.

      San Marino – Sammarinese women received the right to vote in 1960.

      Sweden – Women’s universal national suffrage in Sweden was achieved on May 24, 1919.

      Ukraine – Women gained universal national suffrage in Ukraine on November 20, 1917.

      Vatican City – The Pope gets elected by the all-male College of Cardinals.

    2. MrPresident0308 on

      why are the transcaucasian countries one year after russia? weren’t they all part of the same country in 1917?

    3. CapitalistFemboy on

      Again, as the other post on military service still being mandatory only for men, Switzerland continues to surprise me

    4. Germany’s date doesn’t tell the full story. Basically, women got all the human rights only in the 1960s-70s in the West. Before that, husbands and families had a lot of authority.

    5. Defiant-Dare1223 on

      1991 for Switzerland if you require „universal“.

      1971 was the right to vote in federal elections. You need to consider the cantonal level, and the last one to hold out fell in 1991.

    6. RandomUser5453 on

      This is wrong. In the UK they gained it in 1918,from 1928 they have the right to vote at the same age as men. 

      And I see the same mistake on other countries too. This post should be “when they gained the right to vote at the same age as the men”. 

    7. ThrowawaypocketHu on

      Wrong. In Hungary women gained the right to vote in 1918, not 1945.

    8. 6Arrows7416 on

      Why the hell did it take France so long? They’re usually on top of this sort of thing.

    9. The Liechtensteiner government: maybe women should vote

      The rest of Liechtenstein: this is literally 1984

    10. Norway became the first „independent“ country to introduce universal suffrage for women in 1913. In the sense that neither Australia, Finland, nor New Zealand were independent countries at the time they introcuded this right, and Australia also excluded Aboriginals women from voting at Federal elections until 1962. Limited suffrage for women got introduced in Norway 1901 that allowed women with an income or women with a husband with an income to vote at municipal level. And the same right to vote for the Parliament in 1907, if having an income or having a husband with an income. At the time voting was linked to participation in the society by paying tax instead of based on your citizenship. Since 1913 there’s been universal suffrage for women, 15 years after it was introduced to all men, not depending on paying tax. It was a gradual process for both genders, that had to be decided in the Parliament, which got passed in steps.

    11. juanmparedesarjona on

      Actually women voting in Spain only lasted 8 years because the Spanish Civil War. Men and women only were able to vote again after 40 years of Francoism.

    12. Bro why did it take to a least the early 1900s for the half of the population to vote wtf

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