Als Frauen das Wahlrecht erhielten

NZ and Australia at the head of the pack there!

A lot of these are just dates when the country began, it would be fun to show this as a comparison like, how long did men have the right to vote but not women

This should be „How long after independence did women get the right to vote“, Algeria gained independence in 1962 so women had the right to vote from day 1.

What does the asterisk mean?

The map is not completely correct. For example, in Germany, women got the right to vote with the first election of the Weimar Republic 1919.

What do the asterisks indicate?

Also important to consider when women could both vote and run for office. NZ was the first to let women vote, but wouldn’t let them be candidates until 1919.

Switzerland 1971 😖

Jesus Christ, is 1893 really the lowest number? What a pathetic boy’s club humanity is..

Meanwhile the Swiss:


It should be noted that the right to vote for men often came on the very same day or not long before.

Soviets mog

this is the type of shit that would sent one of my collogues into rage psychosis

Hell yea, New Zealand 🤙

**For those wondering what the asterisk means for each country:**

* **Australia (1902):** With the exception of aboriginal women. Aborigines, male and female, did not have the right to vote until 1962.
* **Norway (1907):** Subject to special conditions, related to private means, property, and income.
* **Canada (1917):** Only Euro-American women in the armed forces and close relatives of soldiers. Extended further in 1918 but Canadian Indians, both male and female, did not win the vote until 1960.
* **United Kingdom (1918):** Only women over the age of 30 who were householders / the wives of householders / occupiers of property with an annual rent of £5 / graduates of British universities. Full suffrage in 1928.
* **Ireland (1918):** Only women over the age of 30 who were householders / the wives of householders / occupiers of property with an annual rent of £5 / graduates of British universities. Full suffrage in 1928.
* **Hungary (1918):** Limited suffrage.
* **Zimbabwe (1919):** Only European women. Gradually extended to black women between 1957 and 1978.
* **Kenya (1919):** Only European women. Extended to African women in 1956; in 1963 Kenyans of all races and other previously restricting factors were given the right to vote.
* **Belgium (1919):** Only widows and mothers of servicemen killed in World War I / widows and mothers of citizens shot or killed by the enemy / female political prisoners who had been held by the enemy. Extended to all women in 1948.
* **United States (1920):** Excluding Native American women.
* **Trinidad & Tobago (1925):** Only women over the age of 30. In 1945 full suffrage was granted to women.
* **Moldova (1929):** Subject to special conditions. Equal voting rights granted to men and women in 1940.
* **South Africa (1930):** Exclusively white women. Indian women won the vote in 1984 and black women in 1994.
* **Spain (1931):** Right lost under Franco from 1936–1976.
* **Portugal (1931):** Only women who had completed secondary or higher education.
* **Bolivia (1938):** Only literate women and those with a certain level of income.
* **Panama (1941):** Only for women with a university degree or who had completed vocational training, teacher’s college, or secondary schooling.
* **Syria (1949):** Only women who had reached a 6th-grade educational level. All educational restrictions lifted in 1953.
* **Iraq (1958):** Government overthrown during the summer of 1958, before any elections with female participation. Women won the vote again in 1980.
* **Nigeria (1958):** Only women in the Southern region. Northern region women gained the vote in 1976.
* **Kuwait (1985):** Women’s suffrage later removed in 1999, then re-granted in 2005.
* **Saudi Arabia (2011):** First opportunity to vote did not come until December 2015.

Amazing how far behind US was

White women obtaining the right to vote is not „women obtaining the right to vote“.