Right to Vote for Women

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The right to vote for women seems a natural thing nowadays and one might feel astonished to hear about any country where women are not given this right. I thought western countries have given this right atleast 100 years ago but i am surprised to see that switzerland gave this right just 39 years ago. The right to vote for women in western world started in second half of 19th century and most of the countries gave this right before 1950 except few countries like Switzerland. Few influential countries of the world who gave the right to vote for women in 20th century are as follows:

1918: Germany,Russia and Austria gave women the right to vote.

1919: Holland and Belgium granted the right to vote for women.

1920: US gave women the right to vote in all states

1928: UK gave the right to women to vote.

 

Complete women suffrage timeline for the right to vote for women